AI Needs RNA, Not Just Weights

There is a creature at the bottom of the ocean that solves intelligence differently than every other animal on Earth. The octopus has no centralized command-and-control architecture. Two-thirds of its five hundred million neurons live not in its brain, but distributed across eight semi-autonomous arms — each capable of local decision-making, sensation, and response without a round trip to headquarters. More remarkably, the octopus edits its own RNA in real time, reconfiguring the proteins that m