There was some great discussion last week on cephalopods on this HN thread: Just how smart is an octopus? (washingtonpost.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/ite

There was some great discussion last week on cephalopods on this HN thread: Just how smart is an octopus? (washingtonpost.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354852 If you'll forgive me copy and pasting from my comment there: I love how completely alien they are compared to us. The sort of decentralized nature of their nervous system compared to our path of evolution. (I'm no marine/evolutionary biologist so I'm probably butchering the terminology...) I loved reading the two pieces Sy Montgomery wrote that are in Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/deep-intellect/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/deep-intellect/ And the follow-up: https://orionmagazine.org/2011/11/interviews-with-an-octopus/ https://orionmagazine.org/2011/11/interviews-with-an-octopus...