Octopus Arms

[ysabetwordsmith]

 ... definitely know what the other arms are doing, even if the central brain does not.  Cool.

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Re: Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Hmm... sounds like a hub & spoke array with a ring,<<

That's what I always figured. It had to be either that, or a true five-pointed-star pattern with five brainlets caucusing. If scientists are observing the arms communicating with each other aside from the brain, then that points toward a hub-spoke-ring.

>> which is one of the more optimised hybrid networks for parallel processing.

No wonder they're smart.<<

I hadn't known that part. Cool. It means you can use octopus biomimicry to improve computer systems. Now I wish I could build an octobot and see how long it takes to learn how to open jars.