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A brainless yellow goo that does math

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Is the Slime Mold Making a Decision?

A slime mould is like one giant cell, but inside it has tons and tons of nuclei. So if yo cut up a slym mould within minutes, each of the pieces are fully independent. And we think that that collection of behaviors is really at the hurt of simo decision making. We're starting to see these similar similarities between very different types of decision systems.

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