Clever Creatures
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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The Octopus and the Intelligence
The common ancestor between us and octopus is 600 million years ago or something. We've basely got a massive brain and some nerves that cannt control the rest of our bodies. But over half, if not two thirds, of an octopuss nerve cells, neurons, are in its arms. So they are doing things very differently to us. It's almost like thy've got more of this dispersed network of senses and responsesd and processing power te so different to ours. And that is showing us something incredibly powerful.
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