Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Octopus....fish, reptile or what? Message-ID: <1049@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 12:16:52 EDT Article-I.D.: gryphon.1049 Posted: Thu Jul 23 12:16:52 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:00:30 EDT References: <596@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <2797@phri.UUCP> <795@cpocd2.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 25 Summary: White Cephalopods on dope . . . >This leads to some curious speculations. For example, it is quite >possible that certain catecholamine-like psychotropic drugs (mescaline, >MDA, "Ecstasy", amphetamines, ...) would "work" in octopi in a similar >manner to the way they "work" in humans. Of course, this would be hard >to verify experimentally, since recording the subjective experience of >an octopus is a difficult matter. The prospect of dealing with an >octopus on a bad trip must also give one pause :-O. > >-- > Howard A. Landman Well, that explains why the little buggers change color and 'melt' in your hand. (But not in your moth). -- Richard Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "Its too dark to put the key in my ignition..."