Friday, April 4, 2008

When Slime Is Not So Thick

Scientists have discovered that a single-celled organism can negotiate the shortest way through a maze.

It means that some of the lowliest creatures in the plant and animal kingdoms, such as slime and amoeba, may not be as primitive as once thought.

Slime Bio-Mimetic Control Research Center
Slime before (left) and after (right) negotiating the maze

Pieces of slime mould, an amoeba-like organism, were enticed through a 30-square-centimetre (five-square-inch) maze by the prospect of food at the end of the puzzle.

The researchers believe the slime is exhibiting some form of primitive intelligence.

Read Article Here

1 comment:

Louis Morelli said...

Sorry, it is not intelligence. There are photons coming from this astronomical system that created these creatures inside the slime and inside the food. Since that these photons were arranged in a specific sequence when belonging to the astronomical system and they were spread to space due entropy attacking the system, when they meet at other site and time, they has the natural tendency to re-build the prior system. They are inside atoms but can fells its fellows photons inside other atoms, so, they atracts such atoms performing new connections - which was the origins of biological systems, aka, life. They feel also similar photons inside organic matter that we call " food" and they heed these photons/energy for reinforce or replacing its own photons. This wast the beginning of " alimentation ". So, when hey fells photons inside near atoms hey launches rays of light as tentacles straight to the food. it is what this slime did after modeling its physical body having as template their lightning bridges. Since that the bridges are directly straight to the food, of course its tentacles advances unconsciously thought the short way. Later in evolution this property became, for instance, the chemical force of sexual atraction. ( ok, this is what suggests the models and formulas from Matrix/DNA Theory. If you see the model of this astronomical system you will understand the whole thing)