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Yeah I’m confused by this, isn’t it commonly understood animals dream? What other explanation is there for my dog moving her sweet little feet and barking softly while she’s asleep sometimes.

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The brain structure / nervous system of cephalpods is quite different from vertebrate species I'm pretty sure. A lot of the similarities of the complexity/development are based on convergent evolution. So it's not as straightforward of a comparison. At least in this context.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.0095...

not a direct rebuttal, but I would watch a game show called “are you smarter than an octopus”

Writing questions for that show would be harder than writing shared unit tests for Haskell and BASIC.

I think that depends on whether the panel of judges is all humans or they have a couple of octopuses sitting there as well.

now this is smart television producing!

Might sound snarky but really just curious (and I'm older ;)

Are we close to standardizing on pluralization in English into 's and 'es?

octopuses instead of octopi fishes instead of fish aquariums instead of aquaria

media and mediums diverged a long time ago, but it seems as though the last few years has seen a dramatic shift

oh good golly, a better question might be: how often do you read your own post and realized you already know the answer :)

From what I've read, the "us" at the end of octopus isn't Latin, but Greek, so if you want to split hairs, it would be "octopodes".

http://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-any...

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin gets into the cephalopod-human communication challenges rather magnificently, if you're looking for a remarkable hard scifi read, though you have to go through the (also great) Children of Time start of the series.

Both are excellent books, worth a read.

Finished Children of Time two weeks ago. Now I want to be a spider.

My puppy's soft dreaming growls and her dreaming "bark" (which sounds more like a "bweep!" noise) are the cutest thing in the entire world

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