Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
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[MUSIC]This is a pretty simple maze. It shouldn’t be too hard for you to solve. Of course, you’repretty smart. You’ve got 86 billion neurons at your disposal, you’re a member of themost intelligent species on the planet.But what if you were a pulsating wad of yellow goo? I’m going to let my friend Amy fromDeep Look introduce you.[AMY VO] This is Physarum polycephalum, a slime mold.It might look similar to the mold you find on stale bread, but it’s not a fungus. It’sa jelly-like protist.You can think of it like one big cell, holding millions of nuclei.And they might not seem look like much, but slime molds are smarter than they look.Just watch.[JOEVO]This slime mold can solve mazes. It does so by first exploring every path, and when it’sfound the food at eithe...
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[MUSIC]This is a pretty simple maze. It shouldn’t be too hard for you to solve. Of course, you’repretty smart. You’ve got 86 billion neurons at your disposal, you’re a member of themost intelligent species on the planet.But what if you were a pulsating wad of yellow goo? I’m going to let my friend Amy fromDeep Look introduce you.[AMY VO] This is Physarum polycephalum, a slime mold.It might look similar to the mold you find on stale bread, but it’s not a fungus. It’sa jelly-like protist.You can think of it like one big cell, holding millions of nuclei.And they might not seem look like much, but slime molds are smarter than they look.Just watch.[JOEVO]This slime mold can solve mazes. It does so by first exploring every path, and when it’sfound the food at eithe...
