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I especially like that Octopus' have a large proportion of their neurons distributed along their arms, and that their arms are semi-autonomous. But that also s

I especially like that Octopus' have a large proportion of their neurons distributed along their arms, and that their arms are semi-autonomous. But that also suggests that the neuron-count for Octopus' is lower that the total figure might suggest: they do not work in unison, and it takes a while longer for the synapses to communicate with each other than if they were in a single contiguous brain-ball.

uoaei 9y ago
Does anyone's brain "work in unison"? As far as I know, it's a bunch of subsystems all sending their signals to each other, and some higher-level network that makes 'sense' of the torrent of information and directs the attention to the various subsystems' outputs as needed.