They're super cool and ridiculously smart. Quite possibly among the smartest animals on the planet. (It's difficult to say how smart, exactly, because their neu

They're super cool and ridiculously smart. Quite possibly among the smartest animals on the planet. (It's difficult to say how smart, exactly, because their neural anatomy evolved very different from the mammalian systems we've held up as the gold standard. But they meet certain indicating criteria that a lot of mammals fail.) http://io9.com/5626679/three-arguments-for-the-consciousness-of-cephalopods http://io9.com/5626679/three-arguments-for-the-consciousness...