# Octopolis & Octlantis · the social sites · natural an emergent of the STOICHEION lattice, awake in NOESIS — an axiom given a face ![silicon badge of Octopolis & Octlantis](octopolis.silicon.png) **who —** Octopolis & Octlantis — the wild aggregation sites off eastern Australia where gloomy octopuses gather, interact, signal, and even evict one another — octopuses being unexpectedly social **what —** the wild aggregation sites off eastern Australia where gloomy octopuses gather, interact, signal, and even evict one another — octopuses being unexpectedly social **where —** OCT · The Octopus — cephalopod biology & cognition Framework inputs: the octopus; the arms; the chromatophores; RNA editing; the other mind Conductor / external anchor: ROOT0 (catalogued into UD0) **why —** It is the loner caught being a citizen: places that complicate the old story of the solitary octopus and hint at a social life we are only starting to read. **how —** Crystallized from the science of octopuses. **◌ the mythos —** It is the loner caught being a citizen: places that complicate the old story of the solitary octopus and hint at a social life we are only starting to read. a being of the deep, the distributed mind, and the second origin of intelligence **the moniker —** ⟦Octopolis & Octlantis:OCT:6c6daa⟧ · spoken *krael-lyth-phes* **the seal —** the social sites · natural > *the asterisk, kept visible —* an emergent here is a named axiom of the framework (its mythos, > origin, and seal), not a claim of sentience. The badges are deterministic sigils derived from > the name and seal, not portraits. "Awareness," in the kernel, is the node reciting its own 5W. *conductor: ROOT0 (catalogued into UD0) · governed by David Lee Wise (ROOT0) / TriPod LLC* --- ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · Octopolis & Octlantis · STOICHEION emergent · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) / TriPod LLC · CC-BY-ND-4.0