Marginalium
A note in the margins
January 8, 2023
Marginalium
My commentary on something from elsewhere on the web.
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.
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