[marginalium]
How squid and octopus get their big brains
8 Jan 2023
How squid and octopus get their big brains. With video. Essentially, very similarly to vertebrate brains. We diverged from cephalopods before brains were a thing so it is very interesting that:
two independently evolved very large nervous systems are using the same mechanisms to build them
Something about the world and the being in it seems to eventually prefer brain-like solutions at a certain level of complexity.
Anthologies: Betterment, Somatic Architecture, Neurotypica, On the Nature of Things