What it's like to share consciousness with an octopus

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Tarvu be praised!

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I fucking love Peter Watts.

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One thing to remember, if you ever have the opportunity to do this: Don’t sign up for a round of cephalopod sex.
Just don’t do it.

Not sure if serious…

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Sex is fatal to most cephalopods.

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ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

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Peter discussed issues like this at some length in his excellent novel Blindsight. I can’t recommend it highly enough, as long as you don’t mind being scared out of your wits by a hard SF novel.

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He also has a cat who was forced to briefly share consciousness with a human in his novellette “The Colonel”, set in the Blindsight universe (and written partly to promote the sequel to Blindsight, Echopraxia):

http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/07/the-colonel-peter-watts

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