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>a way to "glance" with their touch senses at an object they hold and recall every detail of its shape later, a way to look at a semi-enclosed space and assess
by quitit 5y ago
>a way to "glance" with their touch senses at an object they hold and recall every detail of its shape later, a way to look at a semi-enclosed space and assess how their bodies will precisely fill it, to then look at an object and know what would feel like to cover it, etc.
Watching an Octopus effortlessly change colour, size and texture to camouflage themselves might lend to this.
- unfocussed_mike 5y ago> Watching an Octopus effortlessly change colour, size and texture to camouflage themselves might lend to this. Yes -- I was thinking about this bit myself. I don't know whether it has been demonstrated that they have any kind of conscious control over this texture control, or whether it happens as a sort of evolved feedback loop, but I did wonder.