Van Gonzalez

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In arthropods, very complex behaviors tend to be achieved through the coordination of many individuals. Some squid are social, but with nothing like the organization of ants and honeybees. Cephalopods, with the partial exception of squid, acquired a non-social form of intelligence. The octopus, most of all, would follow a path of lone idiosyncratic complexity.
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
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