![]() ![]() So how does an octopus fully control all eight of its flexible limbs? The answer lies in its partially de-centralized nervous system. What was just described isn’t an alien at all, but actually the complex anatomy belonging to a common octopus, otherwise known as Octopus Vulgaris, and there is a lot we can learn from it. Oh, and they can only breath underwater, too. Rather than having a rigid skeleton, they have compact arrays of muscle tissue that stiffen and soften when they move, and their many limbs have an infinite number of degrees of freedom. Rather than having a single brain where all sensory information and motor controls are processed, they have nine brains. Picture this: Earth has made its first contact with an extraterrestrial species, and, as to be expected, their anatomy and nervous system are entirely different from our own.
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