But usually its pupils are W-shaped. It also has three hearts
cuttlefish, the tentacled, colour-changing sea creature with floating, polystyrene-like centre, is a kind of child’s birthday party lucky packet in cephalopod form: reach into the strange mixture and you’ll pull out a series of simple diversions, small delights. Some are toys that are miniatures of real-life things – a plastic car, a figurine – some are materials that behave weirdly or feel good, verging on gross – a sticky hand or cold, squeaky neon slime – some are sweets .
Next, you pull out its blue-green blood; its three hearts; the way it raises two tentacles, as though mimicking a snail before grabbing prey; the knowledge that a cuttlebaby can watch its surroundings while still enclosed in its egg; and the adult’s brown ink, from which we get the word sepia. It seems almost sentient, except that it is so childish in the ways it expresses a very adult badness. And it made me think of cuttlefish – or, more precisely, it made me want to think of cuttlefish.
Using ink, a cuttlefish can create a smokescreen, obscuring it as it dashes away. But it can also draw a “pseudomorph”, or decoy: a cuttlefish shape, a self-portrait in pen. This ink is mixed with another substance, which means it. The cuttlefish has been evolving for 400m years, and it has yet to turn evil, or want to be human – as far as we know. I keep trying to remind myself that the chatbot is only a kind of pseudomorph for now, just type, a digital ink obscuring nothingness.
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