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LESSON 5 · Life in the Deep

PAUSE TO THINK

Where is most of an octopus's brainpower located?

In its arms, not its head

Around **two-thirds of an octopus's neurons sit in its eight arms**, not its central brain. Each arm can taste, feel, and react on its own — so an octopus thinks with its whole body, a design utterly unlike ours.

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