128: Sy Montgomery - The Soul of an Octopus

Here at Inquiring Minds, we fancy ourselves aspiring naturalists, surveying and cataloguing nature’s diversity. When we came across an article on octopuses in Orion magazine entitled Deep Intellect, color us curious. It’s a beautiful article by Sy Montgomery who wrote a subsequent book The Soul of an Octopus, which has shaped our opinion on human, yes human, consciousness, because she describes the nervous system of the octopus so beautifully.

And it is definitely octopuses, not octopi.

Links:

• Tentacles exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium

• Octopuses are smarter than they look at Mother Jones

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