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Does this not also say that Octopi (wrong I know, but we all love a fake archaism) are strongly visually aware of their own state, overriding proprioception with visual signal?

considering we're told they have widely distributed neural structure akin to "brain" in their arms, this is doubly confusing: The arm brain is saying "nothing to see here" and the skin colour change is saying COMMAND OVERRIDE CPU ALERT

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