Posted on 07/16/2021 2:26:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Physarum polycephalum, which literally has no brain, might make us rethink this characterization. This blob-like lifeform can perform surprisingly complex calculations, such as solving mazes or exhibiting basic forms of memory.
To learn more about how Physarum molds make smart decisions with no brain, researchers from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University tested their environmental awareness. The results revealed a “novel preference and sensing capability in the unicellular organism” in which the mold uses its body as “both a distributed sensor array and computational substrate,” according to a study published on Thursday in Advanced Materials.
These abilities open a new window into the intelligence of a brainless (or “aneural”) organism, but they also provide insights about behavioral capabilities throughout the tree of life, and can inform the development of soft robotics, artificial neural networks, and other bioengineering applications.
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Does it sniff hair?
My first thought as well.
Michael Moore?
You’re not supposed to go in the oral office without media permission. Probably should check with Secret Service too.
Too easy.
Ha, I here I was thinking about Jao....
This is one of those headlines that immediately makes me think, “And here we go….”
Stacey Abrams?! Nah, couldn’t be.... she’s not capable of an intelligent decision.
There is hope for Joe.
We just call them "Democrats".
So many brainless blobs...so little time.
Fauci was the first one I thought of, then Pedo Joe, then the Cackler, General Mildred, etc.
I actually thought the headline and article to come were satire and referring to Biden.
I’m torn between Brainless Blob #1 and Brainless Blob #2.
Of course, there are purportedly 80 million Brainless Blobs who voted for Brainless Blob #1.
Brainless Blob would be a great name for a rock band.
Biden is also a brainless blob. But most Democrats are.
Why is this news. Biologists have known for many decades that slime molds can act as a multicellular physically disconnectec organism ..and migrate to a common site...coalesce...form a long stalk...and cast its seeds to the wind...from the top of the stalk...there are films of this......the seminal one by John Bonner can be accessed on youtube. Brains....maybe there are other ways to compute info beside our brains.....like our guts...(still room for the soul)
Damn!
I got to this thread late.
If you’ve ever heard the term “Eleanor Roosevelt ugly.”
They’ll eventually be “Kamala Harris dumb.”
I knew the comments here would give me a good laugh, and I wasn’t disappointed. “Brainless blob making decisions” is just too much to resist.
My first thought was puppet man, but it applies equally well to horizontal harris and michael moore.
i am working with this organism at the moment
in electrical circuits.
clever, it is.
smarter and more respectful than the PEDOPHILES in DC.
more honest than the TRAITORS and SEDITIONISTS in the DO”J”.
it can calculate the shortest route between mountains
for roads etc. unlike the stupid and corrupt in DC.
perhaps brain transplants would help?
would it not be safer than the nanotoxins
they are injecting everywhere
by shame, payments, “science”, and now FORCE.
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