Is There a Future for Octopus Intelligence?

In the book, as you note, the arms of an octopus have some autonomy from the brain. Would we be able to recruit octopuses to do work underwater in the same way that the US military uses marine mammals to do mind detection or equipment recovery? Or will the insights that come from research into octopuses have totally different kinds of applications? I'd say that like robotics is a super relevant area because software botics robots without really many hard parts at all. They're more like flesh and they're compliant and they're flexible.