Where's the octopus?

Where's the octopus? It's a question that goes well beyond cute videos and actually explains most of the world's problems and how to solve them. More on that later...

But first, the star of today's show. Watch the video below, and see how an octopus can hide in plain view, just like yesterday's blogfish showed you fish camouflage.



It's amazing how the octopus can hide so effectively as if it were a rock, a piece of coral, or a clump of algae. It's still an octopus, but its shape, texture, and color match perfectly with it's surroundings.

More later on solving the world's problems with the wisdom of the octopus...

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How fish hide

Fish are smarter than you, just ask any fisherman.

OK, maybe fish can't do calculus. But that's not a fair comparison because you can't really do calculus either.

One kind of fish smarts is hiding. Some fish can morph their coloration to create a camouflage pattern, good enough to vanish in front of your eyes. Watch the amazing flounder in the video below. Then, you can read about the secret tricks of fish for hiding in plain view.

One surpriseg is that fish can do camouflage without their eyes. They can "see" with their skin and pineal gland, so well that they can camouflage themselves without needing their eyes.

And if that's not interesting enough, did you know that you have a pineal gland, sometimes called your third eye and believed by Descartes to be "the seat of the soul." It's one place where your nervous system and endocrine system (hormones) connect. And...

When awakened, the third eye (pineal gland) acts as a 'stargate' that

sees beyond Space-Time into Time-Space.

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