What If Cephalopods Are the Closest Thing to Alien Intelligence?
What if the most profound encounter with a truly alien intelligence isn’t light-years away, but lurking beneath the waves of our oceans and seas?
https://www.thecollector.com/cephalopods-closest-thing-alien-intelligence/
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@gutenberg_org Why alien? Octopus intelligence is thoroughly earthly and a few hundred million years older than any form of primate intelligence. If anything octopus show palaeo-intelligence while primates show neo-intelligence. Evolutionarily speaking we are the new arrivals on a planet of octopus intelligence.
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For how intelligent octopai are, their life cycle is completely cursed. After they mate and lay eggs they basically starve themselves and disintegrate while alive, even pulling parts of their body off in the process.
Could give some indication about why they haven't evolved towards any hints of "civilization". Plus they are basically defenseless aside from their ink (which they can accidentally sufficate themselves in in the wrong situation).