David Scheel, writing about octopus intelligence, notes that "cognitive ability" is reflected in an animal's "flexibility of response" response to novelty
Peter Godfrey-Smith, making a similar point, notes that octopuses are "behaviorally 'open'" and that they demonstrate "an anarchic bodily embrace of novelty"
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