Atthis ArtsApr 27

🐙 👕 Want a little buddy peeking over your pocket, a stripe, a little ribbon you attach? Whatever you'd like? If we can get to $4800 in this last day, every $32+ backer will get one, and every backer will get a coloring sheet. Please spread the word and help us celebrate queer art! (And comforting little seabuddies bringing smiles in a difficult world...) #Books #Bookstodon #Cephalopod #Tentacles #QueerArt #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIAP #EnamelPin #EnamelPins

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/dream-the-light/posts/4675654

HenningApr 23
This is SUPER interesting for all my #cephalopod people! #paleontology #geology 🧪 Giant Cretaceous octopuses may have been 19‑meter long, bone‑crushing, reptile‑rivaling apex predators. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Earliest octopuses were giant ...
Daily_FactsApr 17

**Can octopuses solve puzzles as fast as humans?**

Research has shown that octopuses can solve complex puzzles in a matter of minutes, rivaling human intelligence.

Their intelligence is likely due to their distributed brain structure and ability to process information in parallel.

As Aristotle once said, "Nature is not a place to find solutions, it is a source of problems."

What's the most mind-blowing octopus trick you've heard of?

#OctopusIntelligence #Cephalopod #Mari

Megan Lynch (she/her)Apr 16

Breakthrough moment in octopus care: How Birch Aquarium helped baby red octopuses settle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEKXhfnV34Y #MarineBiology #Cephalopod

Breakthrough moment in octopus care: How Birch Aquarium helped baby red octopuses settle

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Show threadearthlingApr 16

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Biological Wonders: From the 1,600 suckers of a Giant Pacific Octopus (each with up to 10,000 neurons) to the living X-ray that is the deep-sea Glass Octopus.

Drawing from the works of Peter Godfrey-Smith (Other Minds), Sy Montgomery (The Soul of an Octopus), and the #documentary My Octopus Teacher, we examine what these creatures can teach us about the very nature of thinking itself.

https://youtu.be/s0JgyHTNwxc

#octopus #mind #cephalopod #intelligence #evolution #protean #neurobiology

The Octopus As an Alien Mind

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The Octopus: Earth’s Living Alien Intelligence

While humanity looks toward the stars for signs of extraterrestrial life, we often overlook the profoundly "alien" minds already sharing our planet. This production explores the octopus—a creature so biologically and neurologically foreign that marine biologists and philosophers often describe it as an intelligence that might as well have dropped in from outer space.

https://youtu.be/s0JgyHTNwxc

#octopus #mind #cephalopod #intelligence #evolution

The Octopus As an Alien Mind

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Show threadearthlingApr 16

THE OCTOPUS AS AN ALIEN MIND
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What if a truly alien intelligence isn't light years away on an exoplanet, but is hovering over a coral reef right now?

Today, we dive into the bizarre, brilliant, and shape-shifting world of the octopus—an independent experiment in complex minds that evolved completely isolated from human history.

https://youtu.be/s0JgyHTNwxc

#octopus #mind #cephalopod #intelligence #evolution #protean #SETI #neurobiology

The Octopus As an Alien Mind

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earthlingApr 16

We spend billions of dollars building massive radio telescopes, pointing them at the cold, empty sky in a desperate search for a signal that we aren't alone in the universe. We are obsessed with finding an 'alien intelligence' built on an entirely different architectural blueprint than our own. But what if we’ve had the telescope pointed in the wrong direction this entire time?

https://youtu.be/s0JgyHTNwxc

#octopus #mind #cephalopod #intelligence #evolution #protean #SETI #neurobiology

The Octopus As an Alien Mind

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Show threadearthlingApr 15

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The Subjective Experience

Because the majority of its mind is distributed, the octopus challenges human concepts of a unified "self". Philosophical perspectives suggest their consciousness may not be a single conductor leading an orchestra, but rather a collaborative jazz band where the central brain improvises alongside its semi-independent arms.

https://youtu.be/ucQnsxjOTDA

#octopus
#cephalopod
#evolution
#neurobiology
#intelligence
#self

An Alien Intelligence

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Evolutionary Path

The transition to a complex mind was likely triggered by the loss of the ancestral shell, which created evolutionary pressure to manage a soft, vulnerable, and highly flexible "protean" body. This led to a feedback loop where a more complex body required a larger nervous system, which in turn enabled more sophisticated behaviors.

https://youtu.be/ucQnsxjOTDA

#octopus
#cephalopod
#evolution
#neurobiology
#intelligence

An Alien Intelligence

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