Octopus information-gathering is fundamentally different from that of intelligent mammals. Are comparisons in intelligence even meaningful then?
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If a complex neurology like that of the mammal was a fluke, what are the chances of a completely different complex neurology happening by chance again?
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The octopus is a short-lived, exothermic, invertebrate loner – how can it be intelligent? Yet it is.
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A 2018 science paper that suggests that the brainy cephalopod might have originated off the planet has been receiving new attention. The basic thesis is that the Cambrian Explosion, which produced most of the basic animal life forms we see today, was the outcome of extraterrestrial viruses carried on a meteor that crashed onto Earth 540 million years ago. The underlying theory is panspermia, a hypothesis espoused by Francis Crick, that some viruses and bacteria travel on the tails of comets or meteors and may take root on planets: These comets could have introduced Earth to novel life-forms that evolved on other planets, including viruses, durable microorganisms like unearthly tardigrades or, as the new study suggests, even fertilized animal eggs Read More ›