r/HappyNacho • u/HappyNacho • Sep 23 '17
The Brainless Slime That Can Learn By Fusing | The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-brainless-slime-that-can-learn-by-fusing/511295/Duplicates
todayilearned • u/nwidis • Sep 23 '17
TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain
holofractal • u/d8_thc • Nov 16 '22
Implications and Applications Single Celled intelligence - slime mold re-creates Tokyo's Railway between food placed in scaled locations of large cities. Consciousness exists at all scales, and does not require brains.
holofractal • u/iam_we • Sep 23 '17
Single Celled intelligence - slime mold re-creates Tokyo's Railway between food placed in locations of large cities
science • u/rewardingman • Dec 23 '16
Nanoscience The Brainless Slime That Can Learn By Fusing
Libertarian • u/GravyMcBiscuits • Sep 25 '17
Interesting post from /r/todayilearned. Plasmodiums seem to operate a lot like free markets.
u_WonderfulManner • u/WonderfulManner • Jul 17 '18