Slime Mould, Cellular intelligence and the Japanese subway system. | Slime Mould, Cellular intelligence and the Japanese subway system. | By Jahidhussainn | There's a slime mold you know called physioium polycephalum
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Brainless slime mold grows in pattern like Tokyo's subway system | Communicating Science 2017 Section 211
![TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo's actual rail network. TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo's actual rail network.](https://external-preview.redd.it/xfD80kB6X6uODOPz9BLO_iMfL_dw8IoyDEJDvk9qpZ0.jpg?auto=webp&s=f4513634c87c6ac72441f20f87071978a0c0a9da)
TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo's actual rail network.
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Slime Mold Can Solve Exponentially Complicated Problems in Linear Time | Biology, Computer Science | Sci-News.com
![Brainless slime mold grows in pattern like Tokyo's subway system | Communicating Science 2017 Section 211 Brainless slime mold grows in pattern like Tokyo's subway system | Communicating Science 2017 Section 211](https://blogs.ubc.ca/communicatingscience2017w211/files/2018/01/SciSource_7Z3597-300x201.jpg)
Brainless slime mold grows in pattern like Tokyo's subway system | Communicating Science 2017 Section 211
Back in 2010, a team of researchers from Japan and the U.K. fed a slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) with nutrients arranged to imitate the nodes of the Tokyo subway system. Can this
Is it true that certain funguses can be used to model the most efficient routes for things like subway systems? I refer specifically to Paul Stamets comments about Physarium polycephalum. - Quora
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