What I've Been Reading

It takes a special person to understand what it means to have a friend who's an octopus. 

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery. A wonderful, mesmerizing and captivating book; I finished the book in one sitting. We need more writers like Montgomery who can enlighten sapiens on the how the diversity on this blue planet is more important than their traditions and gastro-intestinal longings for calamari. I am pessimistic when its comes to human nature and their ability to change their minds but I have my deepest respect for people like Montgomery who try.

So if an octopus is this smart, what other animals out there that could be this smart that we don't think of as being sentient and personalities and memories and all these things?

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It's amazing how little we know about how animals live. The more you know, the weirder things get. It really only in the last twenty years we could even be having this conversation. We're only starting to understand animals.