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The awe-inspiring intelligence of octopuses

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The Dangers of Anthropomorphizing Octopuses

There is a danger of anthropomorphizing because we can't know what an octopus is thinking. We don't know that and this study doesn't prove the octopuses are dreaming. I think by raising the question, even if we can't answer it, it makes us think about these animals in perhaps a different way. And maybe the biggest misconception about them is that they're very different from us.

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