An Ode to Slime Mould (and Daoist's Delight)

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Anton's covering the latest news of physarum polycephalum going to the ISS. It's a fascinating thing because it's a case of intelligence and memory, at least of a very high order in the iterative sense (path optimizing and the like), without neurons. It's technically a mammoth single-cell with millions of nuclei that can split into lower level bodies when food is abundant and the part that I'm really stumped on... can have hundreds of viable genders?

As Raphael Sylva would say - nuestro insolito universo....

I grew and worked with slime mold in college. Fascinating stuff.