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Re: planets

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 17:49
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Grandsire, C.A. wrote:

> > carpet type stuff) on the rims of Octopus tanks so they dont crawl out of > > their tanks to go exploring). Maybe in several million years we could have > > sentient Octopuses? :) > > I don't think we'd need several million years to have sentient > octopusses. I think that octopusses are already sentient in that they > 'think' (whatever they think). Of course, I suppose their thinking is > rather primitive, but they are able to solve very complex problems, > sometimes rather abstract, their eyes are as complex as ours and their > brain capacity is comparable. For me, they are at the edge of becoming > as sentient as we are, maybe like our ancestors (homo abilis? I don't > remember much about anthropology). > > --
Wouldn't there need to be some kind of pressure on the octopus population in order to select for intelligence? Hmm. Maybe we should uplift octopuses; then we wouldn't be so lonely. I wonder what octopus speech would be like. Do they make noises?