Octopus awakening

[TimStr]

Sephalopod intelligence is the closest thing to alien intelligence, we have on earth.

Here are some of the things that  struck me as I was researching about them:

• They have twice as many neurons as a cat but 2/3 of them are distributed in their 8 arms and only 1/3 in their head. Each of heir arms has basically its own brainstem and sense organs. Their arms can act independantly but also concertated. 
• They can change the color and texture of their skin to match their surrounding within an instant despite their eyes being color blind. They do this with photoreceptors in their skin.
• They can solve compex problems and mazes, they have memory and the capability of abstract planning and can recognize people.
• They exhibit play despite being an antisocial and solitairy creature. (Play as a form of learning is usually only found in species that form social relations.)

 

Contemplating this is valuable to realize just how many aspects of our mind and our intelligence we take for granted!

Realize how radical this becomes: It's not a given, that your body is one entity. Imagine the possibility of your left arm, just going on, doing its thing for a while, grabbing, managing and learning stuff, while still allowing for your body acting as a whole if one of arms fins some information that would necessitate that. This ability to switch between centralized and decentralized intelligence is something that humans are not good at at all.

How would it be to have an octopus awakening and become octopus-god? Realize what aspects and what believes about yourself and your intelligence would need to be dropped?

 

 

More Resources:

• My Octopus Teacher (Neflix)
• Inside the mind of an octopus, interview with Dr. Jennifer Mather (Youtube)
• Dr. Jennifer Mather about Octopus Intelligence (Youtube)

[OmniNaut]

I've been fortunate enough to dive with different species of Octopus. And every time amazing to behold. 

This is a video octopuses having sex. At 8:23 (Not my video) but this is the spot where I dive.

So far I have seen:
- Common octopus
- Blue ringed octopus
- Squid 
- Cuttlefish (my favourite)

There is nothing seeing the cuttlefish doing the hypnotizing strike in real life, that was one of my all time favourite diving moments

Still on my wish list:
- Mimic octopus
- Bobtail squid

 

If you're after octopus awakening there is nothing better seeing them in real life, in real interactions.

[Jehovah increases]

love Sephalopods, they are so alien. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BD7ujXex1/

Edited Wednesday at 02:37 PM by Jehovah increases

[TimStr]

48 minutes ago, OmniNaut said:

There is nothing seeing the cuttlefish doing the hypnotizing strike in real life, that was one of my all time favourite diving moments

Wow, I can only try to imagine.

49 minutes ago, OmniNaut said:

If you're after octopus awakening there is nothing better seeing them in real life, in real interactions.

I think, this is basically what this guy did:

 

[UnbornTao]

Love it.

[ExploringReality]

Check out Terrence McKenna's lectures on cephalopods and octopus intelligence in relation to psilocybin mushrooms. basically what he is suggesting is that when you're hallucinating on tryptamine hallucinogens you have a visual experience, what he called visible apprehension, the hallucinations are visibly held in the mind. And he also describes how these entities that he would see during his trips would speak to him in a language that you could see and this is directly related to octopuses intelligence because they wear their language on their skin and you can see what they intend and what they communicate based on the changes in the colors of their skin. And our problem as a species especially as society, there's a lot of ambiguity in our communication system. And this octopus communication intelligence is a very good model for the kind of clarity and communication that we can move towards, rather than relying on small mouth noises 

[theoneandnone]

Octopuses are the closet we have to aliens on this planet freaking love those creatures I’d want one as a pet.