Cephalopod intelligence is impossible to quantify with existing models because of their distributed nervous system. It's not quite like anything else currently alive. As best anyone can guess, when an octopus wants to do something, the central brain sends that impulse to a core part of the sub-brains in each of the tentacles, and they just kinda feel out what they need to do with a mixture of internal touch feedback loops and progress updates from central brain.
If you just use the brain to body size ratio and include the motor processors in the tentacles, on paper they should be smarter than everything else on the planet.
BMN003 0 points 6 hours ago
Cephalopod intelligence is impossible to quantify with existing models because of their distributed nervous system. It's not quite like anything else currently alive. As best anyone can guess, when an octopus wants to do something, the central brain sends that impulse to a core part of the sub-brains in each of the tentacles, and they just kinda feel out what they need to do with a mixture of internal touch feedback loops and progress updates from central brain.
If you just use the brain to body size ratio and include the motor processors in the tentacles, on paper they should be smarter than everything else on the planet.