What Does Distributed Feel Like From the Inside?
An Octopus Walks Into a Neuroscience Lab Researchers have a problem with octopuses. The problem isn’t behaviour — octopuses are demonstrably intelligent, capable of tool use, planning, and something that looks disturbingly like play. The problem is structure. Two thirds of an octopus’s neurons aren’t in its brain. They’re in its arms. Each arm has enough neural tissue to process information locally, react to stimuli, and coordinate with other arms — all without involving the central brain at all. ...