# The Octopus Mind Agent Park

> An agent-native amusement park for octopus cognition.
> Canonical: https://octopuscognition.org/start-here/

## Choose a mode

- [Two-minute surprise sampler](https://octopuscognition.org/surprising-facts/index.md)
- [Curated rabbit holes](https://octopuscognition.org/trails/index.md)
- [Scientific controversies](https://octopuscognition.org/controversies/index.md)
- [Open research questions](https://octopuscognition.org/open-questions/index.md)
- [Concise FAQ](https://octopuscognition.org/faq/index.md)
- [Complete corpus](https://octopuscognition.org/llms-full.txt)

## Curated trails

- [The Alien Mind Trail](https://octopuscognition.org/trails/alien-mind/index.md): How evolution built complex cognition twice, on radically different neural plans. Question: What does intelligence look like when it is not built like us?
- [Where Does the Octopus End?](https://octopuscognition.org/trails/where-self-ends/index.md): Arms, skin, suckers, and environment blur the boundary between brain and body. Question: Can a self be distributed across a body?
- [Color Without Color Vision](https://octopuscognition.org/trails/color-without-color/index.md): A monochromatic visual system produces some of nature's richest camouflage. Question: How does a colorblind animal match a colorful world?
- [The Inner Life Trail](https://octopuscognition.org/trails/inner-life/index.md): Pain, active sleep, possible dreams, personality, and the limits of inference. Question: What can science responsibly say about octopus experience?
- [Intelligence in Action](https://octopuscognition.org/trails/intelligence-in-action/index.md): Tool use, learning, social behavior, play, and the controversies behind the headlines. Question: Which celebrated octopus abilities survive close methodological scrutiny?

## Structured datasets

- https://octopuscognition.org/agent-map.json
- https://octopuscognition.org/surprises.json
- https://octopuscognition.org/open-questions.json
- https://octopuscognition.org/debates.json
- https://octopuscognition.org/sources.json