Long term planning would be surprising, I agree. But what about carrying around a teddy bear? Sure, not a tool but of utility (comforting) to the child. Maybe i

Long term planning would be surprising, I agree. But what about carrying around a teddy bear? Sure, not a tool but of utility (comforting) to the child. Maybe it's just that. It had it around once and found it useful, and became 'attached' to it. But, these guys have a sort of ensemble distributed processing system which is pretty cool. (We do too. The feeling in the 'gut' is thanks to ganglia.) Specialized processors have less to learn and learn faster, maybe? https://octonation.com/octopus-brain/ https://octonation.com/octopus-brain/ "Every time they eat, they risk severe brain damage if their meal isn’t well and truly chewed up! Luckily they accomplish this by slicing up their prey with their serrated radula plus breaking down their meal with enzymes in their saliva." Evolution or God was watching out for us terrans. Looks like they have a built in fail-safe switch to keep them from ever growing bigger or getting bigger brains. /g