Slime molds [are fascinating](youtube.com/watch?v=dYQG6ac38U). 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.

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@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

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