Octopuses are incredibly smart, yet the majority of their neurons exist in their arms and suckers, and not in their brain, making them as close to alien intelligence as we can find on Earth. It's like: what if our hands and fingers could think for themselves?
We visit the lab of scientist Dominic Sivitilli at Friday Harbor Laboratories, where he is trying to understand how the octopus's distributed intelligence works.
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