In this week's episode, Carolina and Clara discuss intelligence without a nervous system, based on the enigmatic organism "the blob", also known as slime mould or by its latin name, Physarum polycephalum. This fungal-like organism is just a single cell but exhibits some extraordinary behaviours, namely pathfinding and route optimisation, that resembles high-level intelligence. We discuss scientific studies that have explored the behaviour of slime moulds, and the comparisons that can be made to animal/human intelligence.
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