Although I am terrible about keeping up with my PM's despite Mooms' well-considered efforts to introduce us, I find Enviro to be an immensely friendly, interesting and well-informed chap who I am pleased to know. And I can only say I hope to find more time to hang out with him and everyone around here in the midst of all the involvements I've taken up. Please believe me, if you don't see or hear from me for little stints, I'm probably alright but probably wishing I was talking to you all. And that most definitely includes Enviro.
I continue to pop in here frequently though and see if there's any conversation I can drop into. Sometimes I don't, because I can't think of anything to say in them at the moment. But just as often, there is something delightful being discussed by all you delightful people which I have an "in" for.
In other news:
I cannot speak for Sylkat. I am but a Northpaw, myself.
envirozentinel wrote:
(crabs, however, can be octodextrous).
This raises an interesting question. In Humans, our brain has two hemispheres, left and right. The left hemisphere is said to control our right sides, and vice versa. So now I'm wondering, how many hemisphere-like divisions do octopus brains have, and how is control of their arms apportioned between them? Does one hemisphere control 4 arms, or one quartile control two arms, or one eighth-division of an octopus brain control each arm?
And do octopuses have dominant arms? Maybe most of them are first-handed while some subset are fourth-handed or seventh-handed.
Wait a minute, I think I just remembered something: I believe I read somewhere that each arm actually has its own "brain" cluster embedded in it somewhere, which is connected to the octopus's central cephalic brain via their nervous system.