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Slime molds [are fascinating](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYQG6ac38UA). They can live as single-celled organisms or work together as a colony that differentiates functions and exhibits learning behaviors without having anything like a brain. Training one slime mold and then allowing it to fuse with another transmits the training with the new slime mold.
@johnnylogic I love slime mould! A few people in my old lab studied them, they were computer scientists. They can do awesome things like solve mazes and design efficient networks
@johnnylogic The slime mould that is, not the computer scientists. Computer scientists suck at solving mazes and designing efficient networks lol
As John Tyler Bonner, a professor of ecology [put it](https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/01/21/sultan-slime-biologist-continues-be-fascinated-organisms-after-nearly-70-years), slime molds are "no more than a bag of amoebae encased in a thin slime sheath, yet they manage to have various behaviors that are equal to those of animals who possess muscles and nerves with ganglia – that is, simple brains."
#Biology, #Learning, #SlimeMold