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@IcariumGaming
April 13, 2025 at 1:31 pm
Except that doesnt deal with terrain, the ability for the ground to support the rails, weather/flood areas, hill etc.
@Trevor21230
April 13, 2025 at 3:03 pm
Not true! In later iterations of the same experiment they actually used inhibition gradients (varying levels of things the slime mold either doesn’t like or can’t survive, like high temperatures or salt concentrations) to simulate terrain conditions, and found that the slime mold produced a nearly perfect recreation of the Tokyo subway system, with the only exceptions being routes that were about the same efficiency as the real one.
@llGuydll
April 13, 2025 at 1:34 pm
slime molds arent fungi
@oreozu
April 13, 2025 at 1:57 pm
Who ever creayed this universe animals and ys these are very complex , and ita probability is very very less 0.0000000000000………. something like that and we live experience, and can think if means someone is there who created us .
@Trevor21230
April 13, 2025 at 3:12 pm
It’s actually nearly impossible for something like a slime mold to evolve _without_ being able to do this, for a couple reasons:
1) despite the apparent complexity of the task of creating an efficient nutrient distribution network, it can actually be achieved with a relatively short list of pretty simple rules all being followed by a number of actors at the same time. This is what is called an “emergent property”. And each of those rules is beneficial by itself without the others or with just a partially complete set of other rules, so it’s easy for them all to evolve one by one.
2) If they _didn’t_ evolve the ability to efficiently find and distribute food throughout their bodies, they would have gone extinct.
@KomodoSoup
April 13, 2025 at 1:59 pm
That is amazing
What was the research paper? And how to get it?
@noname-pb9vj
April 13, 2025 at 2:05 pm
Better than AI.
But in seriousness, are there studies in other locations to solidify the results
@Trevor21230
April 13, 2025 at 3:05 pm
Slime molds are closer to amoebae than to fungi. They are giant single celled organisms with multiple nuclei. They’re just called molds because they were named before they were fully understood.
@acdebiase
April 13, 2025 at 3:32 pm
This is kinda old news. Paul stamets
@j0pj0p
April 13, 2025 at 4:10 pm
Seems like a fun guy
@tuxmc
April 13, 2025 at 10:13 pm
Very old video
@raakata
April 13, 2025 at 10:57 pm
That shirt is awesome
@apurvaaeron
April 14, 2025 at 3:25 am
Use AI, include the data collected from fungi as well
@voiceofsuccess2025
April 14, 2025 at 6:37 am
💯✅💯✅
@kawabanga
April 15, 2025 at 7:29 am
His pronunciation of fungi annoys me 🫠