Marginalium
A note in the margins
January 8, 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.
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