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How Octopus Intelligence Works—a Distributed Mind
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How Octopus Intelligence Works—a Distributed Mind

Octopuses possess 500 million neurons, two-thirds of which reside in their arms rather than their central brain. This distributed nervous system enables remarkable cognition—from tool use to individual human recognition—offering scientists a radically different model of how intelligence evolves.

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