Slime mold form a map of the Tokyo-area railway system
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Uploaded by HarvardMagazine on Mar 30, 2010
When the researchers place food at cities on the map, the fungus collaborates, spreading out to map many possible configurations and then dying away to highlight the shortest routes between cities and the most efficient overall system map.
For more about the problem-solving power inherent in networks, see "Networked" (May-June 2010).
Via http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/networked
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Thank you for sharing this fine piece. Very inspiring! (as always, btw)
sofiayearwood 2 months ago
excellent!
GavinLomax 2 months ago
Nice feature for the mag.
jhamien920 3 months ago
collective distributed decision making is a kind of intelligence.
Bigneebug 4 months ago
ZERG RUSH!
prestonguthrie4 9 months ago
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)
MrBlokGuy 1 year ago
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?
CHistrue 1 year ago
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.
commandergeneral1337 1 year ago
amazing.
sincityfire 1 year ago
nice, maybe a new way to architect
moxigen 1 year ago