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The book has been admired by reviewers, who have found it delightfully written, [1] undogmatic but incisive in its analysis, [2] and its account of intelligence as a subjective embodied experience elegantly told. [3] His octopus subjects come across as "uncannily personable without being at all human." [4]
How the Octopus Solved the Problem in the Video. When you watch the video you can see the octopus discovers the fish inside the bottle but can’t get it out.
An octopus (pl.: octopuses or octopodes [a]) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (/ ɒ k ˈ t ɒ p ə d ə /, ok-TOP-ə-də [3]). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.
Their growth rate is quite rapid: starting from 0.03 g (0.0011 oz) and growing to 20–40 kg (44–88 lb) at adulthood, which is an increase of around 0.9% per day. [3] The giant Pacific octopus' growth over the course of a year has two sections: a faster section, from July to December, and a slower section, from January to June. [38]
In the video above, the scientist explains that this particular species of octopus has "beaks for mouths and their brains are donut-shaped and surround their esophagus.
These selective pressures may explain why the octopus’ brain is the largest of any invertebrate and vastly larger and more sophisticated than the clams. There’s another concept that comes into ...
An octopus, with around 500 million neurons. [1]Cephalopod intelligence is a measure of the cognitive ability of the cephalopod class of molluscs.. Intelligence is generally defined as the process of acquiring, storing, retrieving, combining, and comparing information and skills. [2]
A cephalopod / ˈ s ɛ f ə l ə p ɒ d / is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda / s ɛ f ə ˈ l ɒ p ə d ə / (Greek plural κεφαλόποδες, kephalópodes; "head-feet") [3] such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus.