Is the Octopus Conscious?

Are octopuss conscious beings? I've written a paper in a journal, cat own inno sentients. They find ways ikeit o matter what you do, it's so hard. So undred %, because they are xextremely clever and extremely bendable and flexible, like they'll find a way. But i don't know if they know that they're doing it so that they can use the information in th future. Not knowing how you could know is part of the difficult of studying the octopuses. The most common ancestor of humans and octopuses was first dinosaurs. We have a chronologically closer ancestor with the Octopus than any other mammal. If we