Octopuses and humans are about as different from each other as two intelligent species can be. Connecting with an octopus could allow us to transcend the limits of what it means to be human. It's like interstellar travel, you know, m while staying here on this planet. There is a growing literature demonstrating that some octopus species are genuinely more social than was previously believed. And there's a couple of really interesting octopuses that have become known as pacific polis and octopholis.