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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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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
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
Equisetum species
are very adaptive plants
living fossil herbs
#dailyhaikuprompt
#HorseTail
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#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
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Great Horsetail (Equisetum telmateia) - Aobram
single protean
blobby mass amorphously
devolves into rot
#Haiku #Poetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
#MastoPrompt
#Protean
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The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 18 March 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories
In-Wheel Motor: A Potential Tech For EVs #1900 #automotive #ev #ferdinandporsche #inwheelmotor #iwm #porsche #protean #tech
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/347929/in-wheel-motor-a-potential-tech-for-evs/
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>>>> "She is everything to everybody, & she pretends to be somebody different depending on which audience she is in front of," #Vance told CNN.
>> #KamalaHarris is "everything to everybody" — Therein lies the rub 😂
#Harris is a remarkably #protean leader and an impressively agile #codeSwitcher ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112895362881908397
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