Joined: 6 Feb 2005 Age: 44 Gender: Male Posts: 24,195 Location: 28th Path of Tzaddi
14 Aug 2021, 9:12 pm
Anton's covering the latest news of physarum polycephalum going to the ISS. It's a fascinating thing because it's a case of intelligence and memory, at least of a very high order in the iterative sense (path optimizing and the like), without neurons. It's technically a mammoth single-cell with millions of nuclei that can split into lower level bodies when food is abundant and the part that I'm really stumped on... can have hundreds of viable genders?
As Raphael Sylva would say - nuestro insolito universo....
_________________ “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin
14 Aug 2021, 9:12 pm
