Experimental zoologist and philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith has shown that, in octopi, the brain is everywhere, including but not limited to the arms. HT: Three Quarks Daily, the blog for the e-intelligentsia.
Godfrey-Smith isn’t the only neurophilosopher to endorse my thesis. John Loftus did so here.
If you want to explore the full public record on this, see my initial publication here, and my discussion of the NYT study here. I give some crucial historical perspective here.
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Ok, but male octopi uses one of their tentacles to inject spermataphores into the female (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Reproduction). Are you saying that the brain injects spermataphores?
Formicidum,
I must apologize to you if this is bothersome. Does it surprise you? May I pun here?
[FYI FOR PEOPLE OVER 18: KEEP LINK AWAY FROM DEPENDENTS]
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mindfuck
Cheers,
NS