[dmix]

The brain structure / nervous system of cephalpods is quite different from vertebrate species I'm pretty sure. A lot of the similarities of the complexity/development are based on convergent evolution. So it's not as straightforward of a comparison. At least in this context.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.0095...

[wilg]

not a direct rebuttal, but I would watch a game show called “are you smarter than an octopus”

[speed_spread]

Writing questions for that show would be harder than writing shared unit tests for Haskell and BASIC.

[disillusioned]

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin gets into the cephalopod-human communication challenges rather magnificently, if you're looking for a remarkable hard scifi read, though you have to go through the (also great) Children of Time start of the series.

[2000UltraDeluxe]

Both are excellent books, worth a read.

[speed_spread]

Finished Children of Time two weeks ago. Now I want to be a spider.

[13of40]

I think that depends on whether the panel of judges is all humans or they have a couple of octopuses sitting there as well.

[Xorakios]

Might sound snarky but really just curious (and I'm older ;)

Are we close to standardizing on pluralization in English into 's and 'es?

octopuses instead of octopi fishes instead of fish aquariums instead of aquaria

media and mediums diverged a long time ago, but it seems as though the last few years has seen a dramatic shift

oh good golly, a better question might be: how often do you read your own post and realized you already know the answer :)

[13of40]

From what I've read, the "us" at the end of octopus isn't Latin, but Greek, so if you want to split hairs, it would be "octopodes".

[wilg]

now this is smart television producing!

[5-]

http://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-any...