TIL. about a intelligent slime mold called "Physarum polycephalum" that moves, thinks and tastes
Today I learned something very interesting . It's about a slime mold that is most of the time yellow and is between plant and living creature. It lives on dead fungus and bacteria or rotten wood or leaves.
source: www.thesienceexplorer.com
And while there is still not much known about this multicellular mold, they did discovered with lab experiments that it has a certain intelligence. By putting the mold in a sort of maze with a food source it solves the shortest way problem. The mold is also capable of solving other computational problems.
source: www.thesienceexplorer.com
Seen closer under the microscope you can see clearly the mold is moving in a time-lapse. This wil go on till the mold forms bigger strains that divide and get together all the different cells are moving as one till one divides or form a bigger whole.
When doing some research about it I found out that at a certain stage the mold starts going up against forces of gravity and starts fruiting the spores that then sticks to insects and birds and this way it get's his spores transported to everywhere.
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