Slime mold form a map of the Tokyo-area railway system

[sofiayearwood]

Thank you for sharing this fine piece. Very inspiring! (as always, btw)

[GavinLomax]

excellent!

[jhamien920]

Nice feature for the mag.

[Bigneebug]

collective distributed decision making is a kind of intelligence.

[prestonguthrie4]

ZERG RUSH!

[MrBlokGuy]

slime mold such as P. Polycephalum can also be classified under the Kingdom Ameobazoa as proposed by The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists (J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 52(5), 2005 pp. 399–451)

[CHistrue]

Two thoughts. One is that we definitely do not live in a mechanistic Universe. Sorry to all of the reductionists out there, but we do not so deal with it. The other is that we might be dealing with an alien intelligence---right here on Earth! Further testing is required to test that hypothesis. Hey Harvard, have you tried actual communication?

[commandergeneral1337]

When i see LA, I think of mold on a sandwich. We're all a piece of the picture, too small to see how we're acting as a whole.

[sincityfire]

amazing.

[moxigen]

nice, maybe a new way to architect