>minuscule, solitary hunter>has a ridiculously small brain, with mere 60 thousand neurons>so called "scientists" say they're able to plan ahead, scan their surroundings, deceive and keep a mental image of their prey for up to one hour even after losing sight of themDo you guys seriously believe this shit?
>>5081641They have a distributed nervous system. Its slow as fuck and likely excludes inefficient mechanisms like self perception but it works. Distributing computational tasks to non-brain ganglia is how octopi outperform their apparent brain size issue. Their arms do a lot of thought that doesn’t require conscious involvement, ie: spatial problem solving, memory storage. The human brain can even offload some tasks to the spine and gut.
>>5081643>Distributing computational tasks to non-brain ganglia is how octopi outperform their apparent brain size issue. Their arms do a lot of thought that doesn’t require conscious involvementI sometimes wonder, how do they cope with their arms having a mind of their own? If they're hiding inside a small crack from a predator, could one of their arms just decide to get out of the crack completely unprompted, thus becoming an easy meal for the predator? Having limbs that do stuff unconsciously when you're in the middle of the food chain seems problematic.
>>5081648doesnt seem to bother starfish
>>5081648it's propably like Doc Ock, the arms share a common goal so they wouldn't do that, if the main body hides all of the arms are in stealth mode too and don't just start spazzing out
>>5081766What if one of its arms has ADHD though?
>>5081767just give it some ritalin
>>5081641The base spider-plan is a very good one in nature considering they've been around for an extremely long time, so to diverge from what's typical for spiders is significant and notable.Jumping spiders in the 'portia' genus can and will mimic the "mating password" of multiple male web-building spiders on the webs of the respective female. Where the male taps and plucks on the web to see if the female spider is receptive.also these spiders do not specialize, so they (probably) are not purely instinct-driven.
>>5081772>also these spiders do not specializeI mean, they DO specialize in hunting other spiders, but there's such a wide variety of different spiders that require different strategies to hunt that Portias can't just rely on instinct alone
>>5081767That arm (and the rest of the octopus) leaves the gene pool until all the ADHD genes are extinct.
>>5081641>>5081643Okay, so bottom line, intellect is stored in legs.
