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.
(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...
it must be the covid blob...
it’s smart enough to avoid infecting the antifa and blm rioters, demonrat politicians breaking covid restrictions, and all people eating at restaurants...
feel free to add to the list...
This blob-like lifeform can perform surprisingly complex calculations, such as solving mazes or exhibiting basic forms of memory.
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OK , so you’re telling me it’s smarter than biden, obama and hillary put together? None of them can do all that...
We need to bring back the spoils system.
Trump wins in 2024, you fire every anti Trump hack in the Federal bureaucracy, unless they’re producer.
If the liberal is really good at his job, keep a few, just make sure they’re outnumbered.
Washington DC votes over 90% Democrat to about 4% Republican.
Our Federal seat of government is the most “one-sided” polity in the American Union. It has to change Trump or no Trump.
Beat me to it. Lol.
President Retard
Brainless blob? Biden or Harris?
It has a distributed brain.
All that has life has spirit.
I don’t know how different this is than a sunflower who follows the sun? There is no brain in the sunflower. You can say following the sun is problem-solving and involves calculation. So what is the difference?
Oh.....From the title, I thought you were talking about Biden...
Yep. Leftists, in a nutshell.
So THIS is how the Democrats do it! They’re moldy!
Clearly they have taken over.
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