How could a climate-protection organization breed sapient, tool-developing cooperating Cephalopoda?

I am working on a scenario where a climate protection organization tries to breed sapient Cephalopoda as a help in their fight against climate change. The breeding goals of the evolving species are as follows:

• they should be self aware
• they should be able not only to use tools, but also develop second generation tools
• they should be able to learn from other individuals and pass knowledge/skills among individuals
• they should be collective and cooperative
• they should be able of planning
• they should be able to change their environment to fit their needs
• they should be able of abstract thinking like being able to learn/comprehend mathematics at a basic human level without further education
• No use of direct DNA altering.

Further specifications:

• In the end it should be a reproducable new species with a diverse genepool (to be more resistant against possible future illnesses / environmental changes / etc.), able to survive and thrive on their own in the ocean.
• This might make different lines of parallel breeding necessary(?).
• In the last phase the main focus of the facility would be training and teaching, so the celaphopods understand climate problems and the role of humans in it, being allies to that organisation.

How many generations of breeding might be needed? How would that process and the needed facility have to look like (what does it have to contain, how big and expensive does it have to be)?

posted almost 7 years ago

Olga Maria‭

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