The mechanics of other minds | Philip Ball
Philosophy For Our Times
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What Is the Mind of an Octopus?
More than half of the neurons in the octopus are in the arms. And although it has a centralized brain, it seems that the arms have some kind of autonomous decision making capacity. So we're not even sure if the octopus knows what its limbs are doing and what they're going to do. We might even imagine that it's sometimes kind of watching its limbs do things as though they other creatures.
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