Arielle’s Reviews > The Mountain in the Sea > Status Update

the factors which will keep us from understanding a species as alien as the octopus are the same factors that keep us from truly understanding one another: imperfect predictions of what is “going on” in the head of another, misunderstandings compounded by assumptions, bias, and haste. And a pervasive distrust regarding the motives of the ‘other’ as we struggle to understand and make ourselves understood.-403