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My Octopus Teacher

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You can't wait to get back in the water.

My Octopus Teacher

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What goes through her mind? What's she thinking?

My Octopus Teacher

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Does she dream? If she dreams, what does she dream about?

My Octopus Teacher

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She just ignited my curiosity in a way that I had not experienced before.

My Octopus Teacher

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It's very useful to come back home

My Octopus Teacher

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and try and read as many scientific papers as possible.

My Octopus Teacher

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Two-thirds of her cognition

My Octopus Teacher

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is actually outside of her brain, in her arms.

My Octopus Teacher

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Her entire being is thinking, feeling, exploring.

My Octopus Teacher

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She's got 2,000 suckers, and she's using all of them independently.

My Octopus Teacher

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How do you do that?

My Octopus Teacher

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Imagine having 2,000 fingers.

My Octopus Teacher

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You can compare her intelligence to a cat or a dog

My Octopus Teacher

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or even to one of the lower primates.

My Octopus Teacher

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A mollusk shouldn't be this intelligent.

My Octopus Teacher

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So many times I'd go and search through the scientific papers,

My Octopus Teacher

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looking for the strange thing I'd seen.

My Octopus Teacher

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And then you'd just come up absolutely blank. There's nothing.

My Octopus Teacher

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You're going into a place that's under-studied,

My Octopus Teacher

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and, almost on a weekly basis, you can find out something new to science.