The Case for Octopus Consciousness: Temporality

Temporality is one of the criteria that Birch has advanced for areas cognitive ability may underlie animal sentience. An to integrate and use information across time must be more than simply learning pieces retrieving them. This paper looks at such wider by octopuses time. It evaluates accumulation about one’s place in space, as used immediate egocentric localization cuttlefish medium distance navigation octopuses. Information useful items environment can incorporated future octopuses, including shelter antipredator situations. Finding prey not random but predicted environmental cues, especially contingencies. Finally, examines unlimited associative constraints on learning, cephalopods explore seek out information, even play, use.