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Round2: Karl Friston "Theory of Mind"

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The Consciousness of the Octopus

The brain is trying to predict how the embodied world or the body brain is going to behave in the future. So I would imagine, I'm just here going on sort of what I read about and what I've seen on terms about octopuses, that they certainly may well have a representation or a model of themselves as agent. The bigger question from the point of your consciousness research at what point would an octopus possibly or any creature become aware that it is an agent when it would develop part of its model?

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