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In the UK from 1993 to 2012, the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) was the only invertebrate protected under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. [48] Since 2022, all vertebrates, cephalopods, and decapods have been recognised as sentient by the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022.
Simply put, the hard-wired model that AI has adopted in recent years is a dead end in terms of computers becoming sentient. To explain why requires a trip back in time to an earlier era of AI hype.
[10] Octopus eyes, too, look and work much like those of vertebrates; but there, Baer remarks, the similarities end. Cephalopods are "immensely foreign", with "a distributed sense of self" and a "lived reality" quite unlike human consciousness, a feature that, he notes, Godfrey-Smith calls "the most difficult aspect of octopus experience to ...
Meanwhile, Washington and California are among several states where lawmakers this year have considered bans on octopus farming, a species for which scientists have found strong evidence of sentience.
Sentience: the ability to be aware (feel, perceive, or be conscious) of one's surroundings or to have subjective experiences. Sentience is a minimalistic way of defining consciousness, which is otherwise commonly used to collectively describe sentience plus other characteristics of the mind.
“In terms of sentience, they are at a very close level or closer than we think toward us.” An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blue goatfish while a blacktip grouper lies in wait.
An octopus traveling with shells collected for protection. Despite evolving independently from humans for over 600 million years, octopuses demonstrate problem-solving abilities, adaptive learning, and likely sentience. [92] Cephalopods are capable of complex tasks, thus earning them the reputation of being among the smartest of invertebrates.
The octopus Thaumoctopus mimicus is known to mimic a number of different venomous organisms it cohabitates with to deter predators. [46] While background matching, a cephalopod changes its appearance to resemble its surroundings, hiding from its predators or concealing itself from prey.