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Matthew Royal
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Would we recognize a fundamentally different form of intelligence if it were right in front of us?
Great observations about our chordate bias for big, monolithic brains which integrate sense data, as opposed to coordination among distributed ganglia. Simply because we don't understand their visual mechanisms, some people say cuttlefish can't see at all, despite having photorealistic camouflage. That seems ludicrous.
— Jan 30, 2018 10:21AM
Great observations about our chordate bias for big, monolithic brains which integrate sense data, as opposed to coordination among distributed ganglia. Simply because we don't understand their visual mechanisms, some people say cuttlefish can't see at all, despite having photorealistic camouflage. That seems ludicrous.
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Matthew Royal
is 32% done
Really interesting look into the biology and behaviors of octopuses, cuttlefish, and other cephalopods. Hoping the rest of the book analyzes examples of "non-natural" behavior like opening jars, associates it to a neural structure, or otherwise synthesizes the information into something insightful.
— Jan 29, 2018 06:21PM
