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Brainless slime mould makes decisions exactly like humans do |
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Well, exit my sense of Homo Sapiens' cerebral superiority. The single-celled amoebe "Physarum Polycephalum" that has no brain and looks like my bathroom rug makes decisions exactly like I do. Or is it the other way around? I guess that without a brain, it can't post-rationalize its decisions and make sophisticated comments about them.
In particular when confronted with the classic triple tier pricing structure, it acts as predictable as humans do. Or is that the other way around?
Read the full story @ Discover Magazine.
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