<<... and everyone takes home a new pet ...>> Eerily reminiscent of "Little Shop of Horrors". WFL On 9/13/14, Jeff Caldwell <jeffrey.d.caldwell@gmail.com> wrote:
There is a good Ted Talk movie about the Physarum Polycephalum that Victor mentioned. The mold's goal is its favorite food, oats. The mold found the shortest path through a maze. Researchers blew cold air, which the mold dislikes, on it at a given interval. The mold slowed its growth at that spot at the given interval even after the blowing was stopped, exhibiting memory and learning. It replicated Tokyo's transport system after oats were placed at town locations. The mold has no brain and has no central nervous system, but does have a fan club, SliMoCo.
TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/heather_barnett_what_humans_can_learn_from_semi_int...
SliMoCo - The Slime Mould Collective http://slimoco.ning.com/