Actually fascinating stuff. I did a “Senior Seminar” in mechanisms of memory in one celled and simple multicellular animals. How can a one celled organism have a “memory”? But they do.
Actually fascinating stuff.
Indeed!
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160427081533.htm
“They chose to study the protist, or slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, a giant cell that inhabits shady, cool areas[1] and has proved to be endowed with some astonishing abilities, such as solving a maze, avoiding traps or optimizing its nutrition[2]. But until now very little was known about its ability to learn.”
” Furthermore, a protist habituated to caffeine displayed distrustful behavior towards quinine, and vice versa. “