Intelligence

[farla]

"Note how, as you can see in the picture here, the trachea and esophagus are actually connected, which is why we can choke to death. I'd like to see someone explain how this is intelligent design."

"It's pretty stupid from an evolutionary standpoint," I said. "So wouldn't it make more sense to say it was intelligently designed, and God just hates us?"

"No. No it would not."

Comments

[farla.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if we act now, we may be able to stop them. Due in no small part to their inherent superiority in design, the cehalopods have yet to develop the additional fine-tuning of structure that allow us to see so well. We must kill them now, in their moment of weakness, before they grow too powerful.

Also those damn X-men and the rest of the mutants.

I'm actually more interested in octopi brain structure and thought processes. Mollusks split off so early in evolution that there was no brain to speak of, meaning that the brains of squids and octopi have evolved completely independently of the rest of life on earth. People talk sometimes about trying to communicate with aliens who will have completely different brains than ours totally ignoring the fact that for octopi ARE about as alien as you can get, and pretty smart as well. If we could just extend their lifespan...