{"id":236443,"date":"2026-05-03T22:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/do-octopus-brains-work-like-humans-or-is-there-another-way-to-be-smart"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:12:47","slug":"do-octopus-brains-work-like-humans-or-is-there-another-way-to-be-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/do-octopus-brains-work-like-humans-or-is-there-another-way-to-be-smart","title":{"rendered":"Do octopus brains work like humans\u2019\u2014or is there another way to be smart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-octopus-brains-work-like-humans-or-is-there-another-way-to-be-smart.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just like vertebrates, cephalopods\u2014such as octopuses and squid\u2014have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like vertebrates, cephalopods\u2014such as octopuses and squid\u2014have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}