{"id":580342,"date":"2026-08-10T11:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/580342\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:52:13","slug":"why-each-octopus-arm-has-a-mind-of-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/580342\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Each Octopus Arm Has a Mind of Its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

Octopuses are clever enough to unscrew jars from the inside and throw sand at their annoying neighbors. But only a fraction of their smarts come from their doughnut-shaped brains. Over two-thirds of their roughly 500 million neurons reside in eight sucker-studded arms\u2014a kind of distributed intelligence unique to cephalopods.<\/p>\n

Each of these powerful appendages can move in any direction and taste and feel with exquisite sensitivity. A nerve ring connecting all eight arms enables explorations of the seafloor that is not always governed by the central brain upstairs.<\/p>\n

What’s it like when your arms have minds of their own<\/a>? Many mysteries\u2014anatomical, behavioral, and philosophical\u2014remain. But here’s some of what scientists have been able to learn about these unorthodox invertebrates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Octopuses are clever enough to unscrew jars from the inside and throw sand at their annoying neighbors. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[262493,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-580342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-galaxy-brain","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}