How long would it take to breed octopi up to human levels of intelligence (enough to create and maintain their own civilization)?
How long would it take to breed octopi up to human levels of intelligence (enough to create and maintain their own...
Carson Ramirez
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Andrew Perez
i dont know but we should probably pay someone at berkeley
Jonathan Smith
to find out
Gavin Young
>octopi
Jose Martin
how long it
Luis Davis
long it how
Nolan Lopez
uh
0 years
because it already happened
moron
Austin Anderson
octopi overlords when?
Alexander Price
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>Provolution is a term for the use of technology to enhance or augment the intelligence of a non-sentient species to full sentience.
Carson Thompson
>Octopuses and other coleoid cephalopods are capable of greater RNA editing (which involves changes to the nucleic acid sequence of the primary transcript of RNA molecules) than any other organisms. Editing is concentrated in the nervous system and affects proteins involved in neural excitability and neuronal morphology. More than 60% of RNA transcripts for coleoid brains are recoded by editing, compared to less than 1% for a human or fruit fly. Coleoids rely mostly on ADAR enzymes for RNA editing, which requires large double-stranded RNA structures to flank to the editing sites. Both the structures and editing sites are conserved in the coleoid genome and the mutation rates for the sites are severely hampered. Hence, greater transcriptome plasticity has come as the cost of slower genome evolution.
Way too long for it to even be worth trying to do. Octopuses have a poor physiology for forcing quick and deliberate evolution. They’ve been around and changed very little in about 300 million years of existence, while the shrews became Humans in only 66 million years.