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You can't tickle yourself because your brain predicts outcomes of your own actions and ignores matching sensations. However, schizophrenia patients — whose prediction systems are impaired — can indeed tickle themselves.
Purple does not exist in the light spectrum. When red and blue light simultaneously stimulate the eye, the brain creates this color to resolve the contradictory signals.
The brain of a cephalopod is shaped like a donut, with the esophagus running straight through the center. Even in a 300 kg colossal squid, the esophagus is only about 10 mm in diameter—so swallowing too large a piece of food can compress the brain and cause damage.
An octopus has roughly 500 million neurons, and more than two-thirds of them are distributed across its eight arms rather than its central brain. The brain issues high-level commands while each arm independently handles the details—a decentralized nervous system.
No schizophrenia case in a person blind from birth has been reported in over 70 years. A 2018 study of ~470,000 Western Australians found none among 66 children with congenital cortical blindness. The effect is specific to early visual-cortex damage, not eye-caused or later blindness.