Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra

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Octopus nervous systems are inspiring soft robots controlled through flexible appendages instead of rigid central mechanisms.
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An octopus brain stores behaviors, not body maps. Detecting food triggers a generalized grab command.
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Each of an octopus’s eight arms has enough neural autonomy to function as if it thinks for itself.
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Octopuses have about 500 million neurons, like dogs, but only 10% sit in the central brain.
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An octopus arm bends where opposing muscle waves meet, one traveling from its tip and one from its base.
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Octopuses open containers, navigate mazes, change appearance, and mimic animals when unfamiliar problems demand creativity.
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Cephalopods may have evolved complex brains long before our vertebrate relatives.
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Intelligence evolved along radically different paths may reveal how consciousness arises and what other intelligent life could be.
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Octopuses solve puzzles, demonstrating intelligence comparable to that found in some vertebrates.

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