Complexity of the Octopus

[The octopus has] an amazing skin, because there are up to 20 million of these chromatophore pigment cells and to control 20 million of anything is going to take a lot of processing power. ... These animals have extraordinarily large, complicated brains to make all this work. ... And what does this mean about the universe and other intelligent life? The building blocks are potentially there and complexity will arise. Evolution is the force that's pushing that. I would expect, personally, a lot of diversity and a lot of complicated structures. It may not look like us, but my personal view is that there is intelligent life out there.

Notes:

Demonstrates that incredible complexity in life can originate anywhere through evolution.

Folksonomies: evolution extraterrestrials

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Origins: Where are the Aliens?

Audiovisual Media>Television Broadcast: Hanlon, Roger T. (2004), Origins: Where are the Aliens?, NOVA, Retrieved on 2012-06-01

Folksonomies: xenobiology