Post B5mxipe9ZCmXD0wOzA by halbgarheiten@sciences.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5mpcBIJsoDIgj2vJ2 by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       What If Cephalopods Are the Closest Thing to Alien Intelligence?What if the most profound encounter with a truly alien intelligence isn’t light-years away, but lurking beneath the waves of our oceans and seas?https://www.thecollector.com/cephalopods-closest-thing-alien-intelligence/#cephalopods #animals
       
 (DIR) Post #B5mqz27aFqcUqvU8Tw by christianschwaegerl@mastodon.social
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       @gutenberg_org Why alien? Octopus intelligence is thoroughly earthly and a few hundred million years older than any form of primate intelligence. If anything octopus show palaeo-intelligence while primates show neo-intelligence. Evolutionarily speaking we are the new arrivals on a planet of octopus intelligence.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5mxXFZNMOKy8HBRr6 by leonardom@mathstodon.xyz
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       @gutenberg_org put her/him back in water :-)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5mxipe9ZCmXD0wOzA by halbgarheiten@sciences.social
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       @gutenberg_org cf. Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Ruin
       
 (DIR) Post #B5nMV6IXMHmPeUNZfU by contrasocial@mastodon.social
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       @gutenberg_org For how intelligent octopai are, their life cycle is completely cursed. After they mate and lay eggs they basically starve themselves and disintegrate while alive, even pulling parts of their body off in the process.Could give some indication about why they haven't evolved towards any hints of "civilization". Plus they are basically defenseless aside from their ink (which they can accidentally sufficate themselves in in the wrong situation).