system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Hydra/Cerberus/Orthros/etc.] In cases of beadts with multiple heads, does each head control the body or is there an "alpha" head that controls most or all of the body?
gpt
We actually have a very good real life example to compare this to! Octopodes (love that word) have a brain plus neural synapses that act as mini brains in each of their tentacles. All the arms together produce about 2/3rds of all brain activity; each arm can be lost and regenerated, as there's still a lot of backup brainpower left.

Those aren't *heads*, they're toothy tentacles belonging to a single creature!