You should read about experiments where they gave MDMA to octopus who are usually very unsocial… spoiler: it has an effect. They are fascinating animals. They

You should read about experiments where they gave MDMA to octopus who are usually very unsocial… spoiler: it has an effect. They are fascinating animals. They are highly intelligent, but have one big problem: their max. life expectation is about 5 years. Usually the mother dies at birth and they grow up alone from an early age, hence no social development (even to a degree where they are very hostile to other octopus). So they have not a way of building culture like humans, like thr passing on knowledge to the younger generations. Though they kind of have 8 brains. If they didn‘t have these problems, we might be talking differently about them. One day I will open a training area with octopus & invest millions in trying to extend life expectancy & social behaviour of octopuses and train them to take over the world.