Octopodes have a different nervous system than vertebrates. We have a brain that does almost all of the “thinking” while the rest of the nervous system is either sending or receiving signals (with some “thinking” done below the brain like in the spine).
Octopuses have a brain, but much of the “thinking” is done by nerve clusters in each tenticle.
While grasping on object for humans requires signals going from hand to brain and back, for octopi, a lot of the signals can literally just stay in the tentacle.
It makes sense in that context that they would learn tasks in specific tentacles.
Octopodes have a different nervous system than vertebrates. We have a brain that does almost all of the “thinking” while the rest of the nervous system is either sending or receiving signals (with some “thinking” done below the brain like in the spine).
Octopuses have a brain, but much of the “thinking” is done by nerve clusters in each tenticle.
While grasping on object for humans requires signals going from hand to brain and back, for octopi, a lot of the signals can literally just stay in the tentacle.
It makes sense in that context that they would learn tasks in specific tentacles.