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Zom the Octopus

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Apr 22, 2021
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From Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa (2020), p.148:

We should then at least consider the possibility that an octopus is a being with multiple selves. There is a primary or most complex self – the central brain – but also eight smaller ones. These smaller ones might not be sentient or conscious, but the general shape of the situation would be: 1 + 8.

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[[Aramis77]]
Apr 23, 2021

This is Bullish for octopi industrialization I think.

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ExecrableFrippery
Jul 17, 2021

Tell me, O Octopus, I catechizes

Is those things arms, or is they mindzes?

I marvel at thee, Octopus;

If I were thou, I'd call me Us.

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