{"id":12064,"date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/training-transhumanism-i-want-to-become-a-cephalopod\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T09:12:13","slug":"training-transhumanism-i-want-to-become-a-cephalopod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/training-transhumanism-i-want-to-become-a-cephalopod\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Transhumanism (I WANT TO BECOME A CEPHALOPOD)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,505,461],"project_type":[725,731],"class_list":["post-12064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2018","project-planetary-glitch","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Training Transhumanism<\/em> is an open-sourced web-based instructional video series for training human enhancement based on the model of a cephalopod. Each video will instruct one exercise of the Training Transhumanism (I WANT TO BECOME A CEPHALOPOD)<\/em> psycho-physical regimen for human enhancement in the face of rapid ecological and technological change, developed in collaboration with luciana achugar. Exercises train new sensitivities and capabilities, focusing on embodied intelligence, shape-shifting (camouflage) and distributed intelligence. Training Transhumanism (I WANT TO BECOME A CEPHALOPOD)<\/em> positions a non-mammalian animal as an evolutionary role model (rather than a machine); embraces the capacities residing in the biological human body and the pleasures rooted in bodily labors; advocates for embodied knowledge for the project of innovation; and embraces training as a technology is rooted in practice, development of internal abilities, and equity in access.<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

1<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Welcome to cephalopod<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>evolution<\/span><\/h3>\r\nTraining Transhumanism (I WANT TO BECOME A CEPHALOPOD)<\/em> is a PSYCHO- PHYSICAL training regimen for human evolution {{enhancement, extension, transformation}} in the face of rapid ecological and technological change. A series of exercises train new sensitivities and capabilities within the existing human biological system, based on the #role-model-organism# of the cephalopod. The regimen focuses on the internal capacity building of three key cephalopodic traits within the human: embodied and tactile intelligence, shape-shifting camouflage and distributed intelligence.\r\n\r\nTraining Transhumanism (I WANT TO BECOME A CEPHALOPOD)<\/em> was developed at the MIT Media Lab (aka the future factory<\/a>) by Miriam Simun in collaboration with luciana achugar<\/a>."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12068],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"
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2.\u00a0transhumanist dreams<\/span><\/h3>\r\n#trainingtranshumanism {{{transhumanism:: the physical, psychological and emotional enhancement of the human}}} not through augmentation or implantation but through TRAINING, LABOR, BODY-WORK.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nThe literal definition for transhuman is \u00bbbeyond human.\u00ab Another definition describes the enhancement of humans\u2019 physical, cognitive and emotional abilities. For the last half-century, transhumanism has come to be understood as a vision for the future of the human that melds human and machine. Heavily influenced by science fiction and currently heralded by silicon valley, popular transhumanist projects attempt to upload the brain to the Internet, end death, enhance cognition through neurobiological intervention and artificial intelligence, and generally and push beyond the limits of human capacity with technology.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12070],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"
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\r\n\r\nA primary goal of many transhumanists is to convince the public that embracing radical technology and science is in the species\u2019 best interest. The ultimate melding of \u00bbman and machine.\u00ab1<\/sup>\r\n\r\n\u00bbPosthumanism is a description of a new form of human existence in which the boundaries between humans and nature and humans and machines are blurred, as well as a prescription for an ideal situation in which the limitations of human biology are transcended, replaced by machines. The transition from the human condition to the posthuman condition will be facilitated by transhumanism, the project of human enhancement that will ultimately yield the transformation of the human species from the human to the posthuman. As an intellectual movement, transhumanism is still very small, but transhumanist ideas exert deep and broad influence on contemporary culture and society\u2026[I] argue that it should be seen as a secularist faith: transhumanism secularizes traditional religious themes, concerns, and goals, while endowing technology with religious significance.\u00ab2<\/sup>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nWorship of technology. A quick image search renders the preceding images \u2013 the melding of man with machine (and one woman). Data storage, wireless brain-to-device interaction, implanted error correction devices\u2026the predominant model for the future of the human is a computing machine.\r\n
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\r\n\r\nWhile \u00bbsolving\u00ab death and discarding with my body do not reside high on my agenda, the enhancement of capability is a worthy endeavor, and certainly one we need to contend with all these futures.\r\n\r\nBut I don\u2019t want to become a machine.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

3<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>What do you want?<\/span><\/h3>\r\n \r\n\r\nI WANT.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nI WANT TO BECOME.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nI WANT TO BECOME A CEPHALOPOD.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n{{{ #allthewaysintobecoming }}} We are agents of our own evolution\u2026 but what is the model according to which we operate?\r\n\r\nEmbedded in all projects of innovation are the grains of desire, of vision, of ideology \u2013 explicit or not. This transhumanist project begins with a declaration of desire.\r\n\r\nThe future(s) we propose are the future(s) we desire."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12090],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

4<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>training<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>as technology<\/span><\/h3>\r\nThis attempt at becoming requires the use of a technology rooted in bodily labors: training.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe Merriam-Webster\u2019s dictionary offers a definition of the term technology: \u00bbthe use of science in industry, engineering, etc., to invent useful things or to solve problems and a machine, piece of equipment, method, etc., that is created by technology.\u00ab In 1937, the American sociologist Read Bain wrote that \u00bbtechnology includes all tools, machines, utensils, weapons, instruments, housing, clothing, communicating and transporting devices and the skills by which we produce and use them.\u00ab3<\/sup> The US Patent department enables the patenting of objects but also processes: methods are also understood to be technologies.\r\n\r\nTraining is a method of producing a new kind of human, out of an old one. We train pilots, astronauts, soldiers. We train trainers. We develop methods and processes in order to produce biological organisms with new capabilities. These trainings are also a technology.\r\n\r\nTraining, as opposed to devices, is a technology that requires a different kind of resource investment: of time and of labor \u2013 not simply of capital. Training does not [have to] require expensive gadgets, material goods, the newest devices. Training requires labor, diligence, commitment and effort."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12072],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"In this way, training as technology \u2013 if wielded in thoughtful ways \u2013 can encourage equity in access. Certainly, time is a valuable resource, and hard to come by \u2013 but fundamentally \u2013 time can be made where capital and access to material technologies can not. Training is about making-do with what one has and making it better, through labor, through commitment, through effort: through sweat."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"
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5<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>the cephalopod<\/span><\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n#rolemodelspecies\r\n\r\nCephalopods are the class of marine mollusks that includes octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus. They have been in existence for over 400 million years.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12084],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"
\r\n\r\n\u00bbCephalopods \u2013 especially octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid \u2013 have a special importance. These animals are an independent experiment in the evolution of large and complex nervous systems \u2013 in the biological machinery of the mind. They evolved this machinery on a historical lineage distinct from our own. Where their minds differ from ours, they show us another way of being a sentient organism, writes Peter Godfrey- Smith in Other Minds.\u00ab4<\/sup><\/sup>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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5<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>embodied + tactile<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>intelligence<\/span><\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\u00bbThe idea is to do collaborative research, to be in touch, in ways that enable response-ability.\u00ab<\/span><\/div><\/blockquote>\r\n
\r\n\r\n\u2013 Karen Barad5<\/sup>\r\n\r\nEmbodied cognition is a thinking that occurs in relation to the world. It is an understanding and intelligence that occurs fundamentally in relation to a specific context. It thus requires \u2013 and is shaped by \u2013 our physical bodies and the physical, real- world environment. It is where all intelligence emerged from, and the site to which human intelligence remains tethered.\r\n\r\nTo understand intelligence as fundamentally tied to perceptive and action-based abilities that reside in our bodies.\r\n\r\nThis position presents us with an entirely other set of possibilities for intelligence and action in the world.\r\n\r\nThe cephalopod as model explores the radical extreme of embodied cognition and intelligence \u2013 neural-cognitive processes literally occurring in what we vertebrates term the \u00bbperipheral\u00ab body parts. The cephalopod represents a radical example of neurobiology \u2013 decision making with the body, without involving the \u2018main\u2019 brain.6<\/sup>\r\n\r\nAs Mather and Kuba describe:\r\n\r\n\u00bbThe arm contains a widespread sensory system that allows the animal to collect mechanical and chemical information from the immediate environment and to appropriately react to the stimuli.\u00ab7<\/sup>\r\n\r\nSaid another way by Godfrey-Smith: \u00bbIn the octopus, the motions are guided by the arm\u2019s own chemical and tactile sensors, not by vision.\u00ab8<\/sup> It is the arm itself that makes decisions, based on its embodied understanding of the world.\r\n\r\n\u00bbCephalopods have large nervous systems\u2026as many as two-thirds of these neurons are dedicated to the nerve cords and ganglia in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) rather than the central nervous system \u2026\u00ab9<\/sup><\/sup>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12076],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Not only is their cognitive processes localized, it is highly sensorial: \u00bb\u2026a significant portion of the central nervous system in cephalopods is dedicated to visual, tactile, and chemosensory perception.\u00ab10<\/sup>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nIF<\/strong>\r\n\r\n{it is in large part this intimate, fuzzy and malleable relation of mind\/body\/environment in the cephalopod that has enabled it to survive millennia, adapting to an ever- changing environment.}\r\n\r\nTHEN<\/strong>\r\n\r\n{developing and improving a thinking in humans that listens to our body and occurs in relation to our environment will develop our awareness, understanding, concern and resiliency of\/for\/in our surroundings; environment; ecology. The ecological crisis will only intensify if we continue to solely foreground non-situated cognition to address ecological concerns.\r\n\r\nTo stimulate our tactile capacities.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nTo heighten our embodied sensitivities.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nThese cognitive enhancements will provide us with new sensations, new awarenesses, new relations to the world, each other, and ourselves. As luciana achugar<\/a> lays out \u00bba more connected, more sensational relation\u00ab to the world.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"
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6<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>shapeshifting<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>camouflage<\/span><\/h3>\r\nCephalopods can change color, texture, shape and even mimic other organisms\u2019 movement patterns. They do this largely in order to avoid detection by predators and prey, and as a form of signaling \u2013 communicating with each other.\r\n\r\nThe malleability of representation of which cephalopods are capable makes them very resilient creatures, able to swiftly adapt to any situation. This is one of the reasons this animal \u2013 a shell-less invertebrate, essentially a giant piece of meat swimming through the sea \u2013 has been able to propagate and succeed for millennium in an ocean full of predators.\r\n\r\nConsider also Mather and Kuba\u2019s description of the S. sepioidea squid\u2019s evaluation of predator behavior and subsequent response in a near-shore field study:\r\n\r\n\u00bbDifferent cues elicited different responses within and across species\u2026 Could the squid be \u00bbmind reading\u00ab the intention of the fish? It is more likely that they were picking up small movement or postural cues, but the necessity to do such complex evaluations suggest a heavy pressure to succeed in these calculations.\u00ab11<\/sup>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nSuch findings show that beyond a simple color-changing camouflage capability, cephalopods practice a complex and sophisticated shapeshifting strategy for best survival. This requires an immense awareness of their physical and social environment, which they gain through highly attuned visual, tactile, and chemo-receptive sensors \u2013 as well as embodied and tactile cognition \u2013 operating both centrally and locally.\r\n\r\nThe US military is funding both biological and engineering research to better understand how cephalopod skin and their chromatophores function, in order to develop materials and tools that will enable an evolution detection-avoidance capabilities for military purposes.12<\/sup> #TrainingTranshumanism takes a broader and more holistic approach. What can we learn from the complex interactions of the shapeshifter?\r\n\r\nWe define camouflage as:\r\n
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    7<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>distributed intelligence<\/span><\/h3>\r\n
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    \r\n\r\n\u00bbAll vertebrates share a general body-plan, and their nervous systems show a common inheritance. Cephalopods have an entirely different organization, both in body and in brain. The vertebrate plan features a head and spinal cord, with the peripheral nervous system coming off it. This is a rather centralized design. Molluscs, along with several other invertebrate groups, developed what is sometimes called a \u2018ladder-like\u2019 nervous system. In many molluscs there are knots of neurons, or ganglia, spread along the body, linked by two kinds of connections \u2013 \u2018vertical\u2019 ones along the body and \u2018horizontal\u2019 ones across it, like a ladder. Though this was the likely molluscan starting point, in the evolution of coleoid cephalopods there was both expansion and partial centralization of this nervous system.\u00ab13<\/sup>\r\n\r\nThis distributed neural organization in means that intelligence \u2013 the ability to think and respond \u2013 is spread throughout their bodies. Different body parts can sense and act upon sensation without that information necessarily ever traveling to the \u2018main brain.\u2019 Even the term \u2018main brain\u2019 may provide an incorrect model for understanding cephalopodic intelligence. As Godfrey- Smith writes,\r\n\r\n\u00bbIn fact, the cephalopod nervous system is so decentralized that it might seem to be a mistake to even look for this kind of unified processing. They may have a radically different style of psychological organization from us.\u00ab14<\/sup>\r\n\r\n\u00bbFor an octopus, its arms are party self- they can be directed and used to manipulate things. But from the central brain\u2019s perspective, they are partly non-self too, partly agents of their own\u2026 central guidance of the movements is never complete, and the peripheral system always has its say.\u00ab15<\/sup>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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    \r\n\r\nPerhaps then, instead of understanding the octopus as a single organism with nine brains, we should understand it as nine organisms \u2013 housed within a single skin.\r\n\r\nThere is evidence that supports this position: Even after an arm has been severed, it can continue to hunt and catch food, attempting to feed it to a mouth no longer around.16<\/sup> Octopus researchers describe different arms as appearing to have different personalities that remain consistent over time: one arm curious, another shy.17<\/sup> Bret Grasse, cephalopod husbandry expert at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, tells of an octopus arm that attempted to feed itself only to have the body shoot jets of water at the arm in order to get it away. This debate continued for several minutes.18<\/sup>\r\n\r\n\u00bbWhen we act, the border between self and environment is usually fairly clear. If you move your arm, for example, you control the arm both on its general path and also in many fine details of its motions. Various other objects in the environment are not under your control at all, though they can be moved indirectly by manipulating them with your limbs. Uncontrolled movements by an object around you are usually a sign that it is not part of you\u2026If you were an octopus, these distinctions would be blurred.\u00ab19<\/sup>\r\n\r\nWe train this blurriness. How might our attitudes shift if we were at times unsure if what we encounter is self or other? If we trained to be so sensitive as to inhabit another bodies\u2019 perceptions, sensations, activations inside our own bodies? \u00bbOther bodies\u00ab can include human bodies, non-human bodies, bodies of water, etc? How might our perceptions, relations, actions change?\r\n\r\nAs a vertebrate with a centralized intelligence, total distribution is impossible. Perhaps then, achieving cephalopod evolution is impossible alone. Perhaps then, the future of the human requires more than one human; to share cognition; to enter into states of shared intention; to become, for a while at least, a sort of single organism.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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    \r\n\r\nThe distributed nervous system not only problematizes the conception of the self, but also the relationship between self and environment:\r\n\r\nBeyond cooperation, beyond collaboration: toward a shared intention.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nOur own embodiment is\r\nnever fully autonomous.\r\nWe require other bodies,\r\nthat in turn require other\r\nbodies, to bathe us into\r\nbeing.20<\/sup>\r\n\r\nOur skin is our sensor,\r\nalso our border, holding\r\nthis jumble of physical\r\norgans, gases, liquids, we\r\ncall the self together. But\r\neven our skin is a membrane\r\n\u2013 porous.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
    \r\n\r\nSo I want you to let this sharp distinction that we\r\nusually carry around with\r\nus to start to blur \u2013 just\r\nget a little fuzzy at the\r\nedges \u2013 where fingers touch\r\nfabric, where weight rests\r\non surface, where arm\r\nbrushes leg.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

    7.\u00a0dry\u00a0training<\/span><\/h3>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":true,"img":[12086,12080],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

    8<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>wet<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>training<\/span><\/h3>\r\nNow Entangled, Accelerate.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nOnce DRY TRAINING is complete, we move onto the advanced stage of transhumanist enhancement: WET TRAINING.\r\n\r\nThis is a whole new level. For this, we will first need to understand that\r\n\r\nYOUR URGE TO BREATHE IS A LIE.<\/a>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12082],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_footnotes","bgcolor":"","footnotes_list_hide_numbers":false,"footnotes":[{"footnote":"Hava Tirosh\u2010Samuelson, 2012, Transhumanism as a Secularist Faith<\/em>, Zygon\/r 47\/4"},{"footnote":"Ibid."},{"footnote":"R. Bain, 1937, Technology and State Government<\/em>, American Sociological Review 2\/6: 860"},{"footnote":"Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2017, Other Minds: The Octopus and the evolution of intelligent life.<\/em> London: William Collins"},{"footnote":"Karen Barad, 2013, On Touching\u2013The Inhuman That Therefore I Am, differences<\/em> 23\/3: 206-223"},{"footnote":"Jennifer A. Mather and Michael J. Kuba, 2013, The cephalopod specialties: complex nervous system, learning, and cognition<\/em>, Canadian Journal of Zoology 91\/6: 431-449"},{"footnote":"Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2013, Cephalopods and the Evolution of the Mind<\/em>, Conservation Biology 19: 4-9"},{"footnote":"Ibid."},{"footnote":"Zullo, Letizia and Binyamin Hochner, 2011, A new perspective on the organization of an invertebrate brain<\/em>, Communicative and Integrative Biology 4\/1: 26\u201329"},{"footnote":"Ibid."},{"footnote":"Jennifer A. Mather and Michael J. Kuba, 2013, The cephalopod specialties: complex nervous system, learning, and cognition<\/em>, Canadian Journal of Zoology 91\/6: 431-449"},{"footnote":"See Cunjiang et al, 2014, Adaptive optoelectronic camouflage systems with designs inspired by cephalopod skins<\/em> and Harmon, 2014, Octopus-Inspired Camouflage Flashes To Life In Smart Material<\/em>"},{"footnote":"Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2013, Cephalopods and the Evolution of the Mind<\/em>, Conservation Biology 19: 4-9."},{"footnote":"Ibid."},{"footnote":"Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2017, Other Minds: The Octopus and the evolution of intelligent life.<\/em> London: William Collins"},{"footnote":"Katherine Harmon, Even Severed Octopus Arms Have Smart Moves<\/em>, Scienti c American, August 27, 2013 blogs.scienti camerican.com\/octopus-chronicles\/even- severed-octopus-arms- have-smart-moves\/"},{"footnote":"Jennifer A. Mather, 2008, To boldly go where no mollusc has gone before: Personality, play, thinking, and consciousness in cephalopods<\/em>, American Malacological Bulletin 24\/1:51-58."},{"footnote":"Bret Grasse, Personal Conversation, April 12 2018."},{"footnote":"Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2017, Other Minds: The Octopus and the evolution of intelligent life.<\/em> London: William Collins"},{"footnote":"Astrida Neimanis, 2017, Bodies of Water<\/em>. London: Bloomsbury."}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_teaser","teaser_elements":[{"teaser_bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","teaser_outline":false,"teaser_border":[],"teaser_type":"teaser_post","teaser_preview":["preview_txt","preview_img"],"teaser_preview_img_style":"teaser_preview_img_right","teaser_obj_type":"teaser_post","teaser_obj_el":22882,"teaser_taxonomy_el":null,"teaser_headline":"","teaser_person_current":false,"teaser_person_current_juror":false,"teaser_person_current_employee":false,"post_taxonomies_person_type":[],"post_taxonomies_program":[],"post_taxonomies_year_generation":[],"post_taxonomies_practice_field":[],"teaser_btntxt":"Read the Interview"}]}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}