Many of us think of our brains as the seat of our thoughts and personality, but octopuses are probably the closest we'll get to meeting an intelligent alien.Sy Montgomery
Octopuses come the closest to our understanding of aliens with their slippery shapes and highly developed nervous system.Sy Montgomery
Just by watching, an octopus can mimic the shape of a flounder or color of a rock, or sequin itself to glitter like a disco ball.Sy Montgomery
An octopus’s amazing brain isn’t organized like ours. Cognition takes place in its arms, which can taste and touch as well as move.Sy Montgomery
The soul of an octopus teaches us that we are not alone in our capacity for feeling and thinking.Sy Montgomery
We all have divining rods and lodestones spinning inside of us. We all have the ability to magnetize to truth.Sy Montgomery
Octopuses love to play, creating games with toys given to them by researchers.Sy Montgomery
One of the challenges of working with octopuses was how to think of them, for their behavior is so different from any creature we know.Sy Montgomery
As we gaze into the eyes of an octopus and they into ours, we are looking into a different kind of intelligence, a different kind of consciousness.Sy Montgomery
The most important realization is that all life is exploration of the universe by the universe itself. The billions of individual entities are all the same universe, looking at itself through different eyes.Sy Montgomery