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by jtolster 793 days ago
Are you intimating that an octopus is more complex than human cognition? Or just that an octopus is complex?
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I mean that it appears that octopus “cognition” — dangerously a word we control and can easily twist to only apply to us — is almost necessarily more complex than human cognition, if for no other reason than they seem to have distributed their “thinking” — another dangerously solipsistic word — into their arms and out into their body, well away from merely their brains.