What I also find a kind of 'freaky' is that it touches the object and then feels it is attached to something and says 'nope!'. And it is gone.
Ofcourse this is no proof but to me it shows some kind of intelligence.
Ofcourse this is no proof but to me it shows some kind of intelligence.
They have advanced problem solving capabilities and a distributed nervous system that can achieve levels of parallel processing software devs dream of.
We don't need to go to other planets to find intelligent life, it is already here. We are just aren't smart enough to communicate with it yet.
If it doesn't move => go check it out.
I have no knowledge on how they identify/distinguish food over a rock, if the tentacles have some sort of receptors on them, but apparently this didn't "taste" like food, thus unworthy of eating or fighting for and therefore better safe than sorry.