Yeah definitely, they are some of the smartest spiders out there.
I would recommend the book series Children of Time, which heavily plays with this concept and is an overall good time.
It's hard to say if they actually have mind tho. I guess it would depend on the definition of what actually is a mind. And then you quickly get down into metaphysical stuff. We also like to frame stuff in terms of human concepts (which makes sense, being human), where the mind of an animal (especially something like an octopus with it's more distributed intelligence) might be so foreign or alien it doesn't even compare.
I'm still wondering if the Peruvian panflute dude following Chakotay around all the time is regulation or not. Like does he have clearance? What if Chakotay needs his flutes playing during classified meetings? Does he run out to the hallway to get the dude? Does he have an MP3 player full of panflute tracks in his pocket he can whip out? So many questions....
Most of the things you mentioned like insects and spiders don't have a mind. Their brains are too small for anything resembling a mind. It's all instinct, learnt responses based on stimuli.
Something like a cat or a dog is smart enough to have some kind of internal concept of the world around them, but still very limited. It's hard to say how much of a mind they have, but it's much simpler than the one humans have. There are simply cognitive tests one can do on small children, which most animals fail. Although cats are notoriously hard to test in these kinds of things, because they don't give a fuck and if they don't feel like cooperating they just won't.
But humans are unique in this aspect, the way we have minds is something no other animal has. It's the unique trait that has made us masters of this planet (for better or worse, probably worse). Perhaps some animals like dolphins and some apes can come closer, but their mind would be similar to a very young child at best.
You are a good dad for getting your son something he can really use. Most people would just give their kids a tablet or cheap out and get something that just barely works. This is a good machine I would happily use myself (after putting Linux on it). A bit chunky for taking it on the road, but presumably he would just use it at home anyways.
How is this in any way funny? A Nato country threatening to invade and capture another Nato country? That's exactly the kind of bullshit Nato was founded to prevent from happening.
I especially liked the part where they designed the sensors inside domes, so they could handle the pressure without any issue. But then when one imploded it caused a cascade failure that destroyed a huge part of the thing. It left the whole thing crippled for years as they struggled on with just a small part of the sensors (which they redistributed and beefed up a bit). Luckily a few years later it got a full upgrade and rebuild, so it was back to 100% again.
Wasn't the IPO of SpaceX setup to be a rug pull? With them only selling a small part of the shares and current shareholders being able to sell their shares way sooner than normal. They put it up at a ridiculous price, idiots buy it because somehow there's always large groups of people buying into Musks bullshit. Then before the price drops the current share holders sell that part of their shares. This would make them so much money and would allow Musk to pay off the debt he made with his fuckups in the past.
Is any of this legal? Doesn't really matter since the Trump administration has pretty much killed any kind of oversight and consequences for this kind of thing. No wonder we saw Musk hanging out with Trump all of the time.
It's a good first step, but I already know they will be fine with only 300% of previous prices. They aren't investing all this money to sell to the lowest bidder.
I still have my original 7" EEE PC somewhere in storage (batteries removed). It was the 900mhz model which I imported from Asia. That little thing was so cool, with a little utility I could undervolt and downclock it to 700mhz. That way the fan would never run and the battery time was very long. I absolutely loved that little machine.
Yeah definitely, they are some of the smartest spiders out there.
I would recommend the book series Children of Time, which heavily plays with this concept and is an overall good time.
It's hard to say if they actually have mind tho. I guess it would depend on the definition of what actually is a mind. And then you quickly get down into metaphysical stuff. We also like to frame stuff in terms of human concepts (which makes sense, being human), where the mind of an animal (especially something like an octopus with it's more distributed intelligence) might be so foreign or alien it doesn't even compare.