calendsokay goblins. octopus monster. enjoy.
#goblinArt #art #noAI #digitalArt #illustration #fediArt #octopus #tentacles #cephalopod #monster #fantasy #fantasyCreature #fantasyArt #calendsArt
Atthis Arts🐙 👕 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
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HenningThis 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 ...
Earliest octopuses were giant ...
Daily_Facts**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?
Megan Lynch (she/her)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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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.
#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.
The Octopus As an Alien Mind
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.
#octopus #mind #cephalopod #intelligence #evolution #protean #SETI #neurobiology
The Octopus As an Alien Mind
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?
#octopus #mind #cephalopod #intelligence #evolution #protean #SETI #neurobiology
The Octopus As an Alien Mind
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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.
#octopus
#cephalopod
#evolution
#neurobiology
#intelligence
#self
