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Today you learn about how octopus arms literally have minds of their own.

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A new study has figured out how the brains and octopus arms make decisions.

You heard that right, octopus arms literally have minds of their own.

An octopus has 500 million neurons, but more than half of them are found outside

of the animal's brain, well outside of its main brain. Each of the octopus's arms has a small

cluster of nerve cells that controls movement.

That means that the creature technically has eight independent mini brains, along with a larger

central brain. Past studies have shown that severed octopus arms can respond to stimuli an hour after

being separated from the central brain, reaching, grasping, and even trying to move food toward

a mouth that's no longer there.

Creepy.

And researchers from the University of Washington

have come up with a detailed video model

that shows how those arms make decisions.

Ready to have your one single mind blown?

It turns out that some information bypasses the central brain entirely.

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