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I'm currently reading The Soul of an Octopus and it's really joy inspiring. Part pop-science, part memoir, part inter-species romance. If you just come in for science you'll be annoyed by Clever Hans effect and confirmation bias, but that's all pop science writing on animal intelligence.

http://amazon.com/The-Soul-Octopus-Exploration-Consciousness...




if anyone’s interested in a science fiction take, Steven Baxter’s “Manifold: Time” has a subplot involving intelligence-enhanced cephalopods. It’s one of my favorite hard sci-fi reads…


Thanks for the recommendation, that looks really interesting. I'm always on the look out for interesting hard(er) scifi.




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