In all seriousness the creepiest thing about octopuses - and the main reason we're most likely safe from them - is far they're a completely solitary species that don't communicate with each other at all and may not have a concept of "communicating"https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1341731799240732680 …
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So, there's a web show that just had its season finale that kind of plays with this idea and made their final enemy basically octopus people with a totally alien view of everything.
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I'm reminded of the mimics from Prey. They don't even see humans as prey, or as anything really.
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Also who's to say it isn't the octopus "playing" or honing a striking skill? I love ethologists but I, too, think we can be a bit presumptuous with the projections.
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I just hope they’re smart enough to understand an ass whuppin’, I’ll take no guff off no octopus.
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Maybe they have evolved to be solitary. We are. Maybe it is more evolutionarily beneficial to be loners.
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Adrian Tchaikovsy's novel Children of Ruin has uplifted octopi, and it presents a really interesting picture of their consciousnesses--they're described as like sorcerers, willing outcomes, but then relying on the subsidiary brains of their tentacles to execute them. It's good!
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