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Re:The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why? by adolph on Saturday December 01, 2018 @10:19PM (#18580599)
Also, their eye cells only detect black and white but they can probably “see” color by using non-circular pupils.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/07/05/weird-pupils-let-octopu...

Re:The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why? by weinzierl on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:02AM (#18581680)
The article you linked also speculates on the main topic of this thread:

> Intriguingly, using chromatic aberration to detect color is more computationally intensive than other types of color vision, such as our own, and likely requires a lot of brainpower, Stubbs said. This may explain, in part, why cephalopods are the most intelligent invertebrates on Earth.