> "When you're dealing with an octopus who's being attentively curious about something, it is very hard to imagine that there's nothing experienced by it," says Peter Godfrey-Smith, professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney in Australia, and author of Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life. "It seems kind of irresistible. That itself is not evidence, that's just an impression."

> "Octopi are sentient, they will kill us all"

> "Octopi are glorified -t-e-x-t---g-e-n-e-r-a-t-o-r- reproduction machines, they only act curious because it leads to more sex, they can't kill us."