The most powerful planner on earth is not human, but this creature called slime mold
"Urban Planning Master" slime mold
puts slime mold Inside the glass maze, the slime mold can quickly find an exit, and the maze exit found by the slime mold is an optimal route. The route distribution problem that has plagued Tokyo Railway for a hundred years, I did not expect that the slime mold will be solved in a day!
UK , Oxford University Dr. Mark, and colleagues from Tokyo, once did such an experiment, they used slime mold favorite food oatmeal, placed between the various stations of the Tokyo Railway Location, placed a group of slime molds in the middle of the oatmeal map. After 26 hours, the slime molds began to spread out in series and gradually covered the entire experimental container.
When Dr. Mark compared the route map occupied by slime mold with the existing railway system map in Tokyo, they found that slime mold completed the Tokyo Railway engineers in just a few hours, which took several years. The goal just completed.
Dr. Mark observed carefully and found that the lines designed by the slime molds are more convenient and efficient. A clump of brainless single-celled organisms, unexpectedly understands urban planning better than humans, which is incredible.
But the cleverness of slime molds is much more than that!
The raised slime mold can speak
Some people keep cats and some people keep dogs
But have you ever heard of someone raising slime molds? And his slime mold can still talk!
In 2019, a medical doctor named Martin Yang,On the Internet, I uploaded a post about raising slime mold. Martin described that he was raising a slime mold called polycephalum .
When he keeps a box of slime molds for a long time, he will feel that the slime molds, just like kittens and puppies, begin to be human, and even they sometimes lose their temper. Run out of the incubation box deliberately.
With this idea, Martin consciously cultivated his slime mold.
For example, when the oatmeal is deliberately placed far away to allow the slime mold to forage, you can take a walk by the way. Then, Dr. Martin had another whim!
If you teach slime molds to recognize letters, wouldn't these slime molds be able to talk to humans!
So Dr. Martin began to teach slime molds to recognize letters every time they were feeding. After 1 year, when the slime molds were foraging, they could already pick out most of the letters!
In the second year, Martin began to try to let slime mold make his own sentences, but the effect was not very satisfactory.
In the third year, June 2019, the slime mold suddenly answered Martin's question while foraging. This scene happened to be captured by the camera.
Martin asked the slime mold, whether you will die, and how do you think about death!
This answer about slime mold has many interpretations, but these interpretations have only one thing in common, that is, immortality violates the laws of the universe, and birth, old age, sickness and death are inevitable!
Why is the headless and brainless slime mold smarter than humans?
At the 2013 London Robotics Conference,There is such a simulation robot that sometimes smiles and sometimes frowns. This rich expression is controlled by slime mold!
Since the slime mold is a brainless single cell flora, how does do the work of the brain?
Let’s first look at a scientific experiment. This culture vessel is specially made for slime molds. After the slime molds spread in the culture vessel, they will first explore every route, as long as any section of the route When the food is found, the slime molds will take back all the routes that are not on the connection point, and only keep the best route.
Researchers also found that slime mold "pseudopods" leave a pool of mucus after passing through every place!
They speculated that this may be a "road sign" left by slime molds to remind them that they have walked this path. Obviously, although slime molds have no brains, they use "physical memory" methods. , Perfecting our own memory system, we put a piece of slime mold under the microscope.
You will find that the slime mold contains a lot of chemicals. Water moves in the waves, carrying tiny calcium molecules from back to front, constantly moving.
Spread soluble substances through diffusion and flow. With a simple stacking method, slime molds with simple structures can surpass humans in some areas!
Application of slime mold in the future
From the perspective of various intelligence behaviors of Physarum polycephalum, it has the potential to become a " biological computer". Perhaps in the future, robots created by humans will have similar intelligence to humans. .
is based on slime mold creation,So these robots can be like slime molds. Has the function of regeneration and repair!
Well, today’s story ends here!
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