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Scientists Observed a Brainless Blob Thinking and Making Decisions
Vice ^ | Becky Ferreira

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 ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: biden; botoxnan; brainlessschumer; brainz; generalmilley; joebiden; kamalathekackler; presidentbiden; vicesux
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To: BenLurkin

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...


21 posted on 07/16/2021 3:17:15 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: BenLurkin

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...


22 posted on 07/16/2021 3:21:06 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it with a 2X4...)
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To: Diogenesis

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.


23 posted on 07/16/2021 3:26:59 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: BenLurkin

Beat me to it. Lol.


24 posted on 07/16/2021 3:47:03 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BenLurkin

President Retard


25 posted on 07/16/2021 3:51:24 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: BenLurkin

Brainless blob? Biden or Harris?


26 posted on 07/16/2021 3:54:20 PM PDT by eeriegeno (A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State....)
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To: BenLurkin

It has a distributed brain.


27 posted on 07/16/2021 3:54:53 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe ff)
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To: BenLurkin
Slime mold looks similar to a neuron.



28 posted on 07/16/2021 4:52:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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29 posted on 07/16/2021 5:21:20 PM PDT by algore
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To: BenLurkin

All that has life has spirit.


30 posted on 07/16/2021 5:29:26 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: BenLurkin

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?


31 posted on 07/16/2021 5:38:42 PM PDT by BEJ
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To: BenLurkin

Oh.....From the title, I thought you were talking about Biden...


32 posted on 07/16/2021 5:42:14 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: BenLurkin

Yep. Leftists, in a nutshell.


33 posted on 07/16/2021 6:18:19 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: BenLurkin

So THIS is how the Democrats do it! They’re moldy!


34 posted on 07/16/2021 9:45:17 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: BenLurkin
Well, this explains everything.

Clearly they have taken over.

35 posted on 07/16/2021 9:57:12 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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