If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.
タグ: philosophy

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I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls.
タグ: look, world, soul, you
To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.
タグ: skin, kiss, me, myself
Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.
タグ: how, far-away, color, fish
We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.
タグ: make, half, friends, you
The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.
タグ: fact, octopus, own, mind, brain
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