Genius Slime Mold Solves a Maze!

Genius Slime mold solves a maze

[@thethoughtemporium]

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[@fendysusanto876]

How much Japanese paid Jerry?

[@jasonmoore4429]

3d cube maze.

[@conallharrington8174]

Burn. Jerry. Now

[@omkargaykar1378]

wait slime moulds aren't amoebas right? isn't slime moulds protsits

[@moshunit96]

That text on the screen really got in the way of watching. There's already a closed caption option so seems unnecessary.

[@SteveVi0lence]

You're going to give it a real challenge. Jerry rearranged the Tokyo subway system

[@donaldmaceachern7985]

jerry been there, done that.

[@creeperbait_42]

Nah that's Jerry's cousin Jerome

[@alexdrum94]

​@@creeperbait_42 More likely to be Jumi

[@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916]

@@creeperbait_42 Jerome isn't welcome in Asian countries.

[@zephiris]

Jerry more accurately *recreated* Tokyo’s rail system.

[@janellewalters4222]

They done an experiment with a maze like Tokyos train system, and the mold followed a more efficient route then the actual train schedule. It was incredible.

[@julianbrelsford]

Oh jeez, theres gotta be some type of application for this kind of calculating ability. The department i work for has to come up with routes through our city where ~30 trucks will reach ~5000 addresses each day, and each day most addresses are not the same as the previous day. Maybe mold can figure out how divide up the entire area into "one truck" sized routes and indicate how the drivers should navigate within their route

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

Are you saying thet slime mold has morre intelligence than the Japanese railroad designers?

[@MeezieMan]

Seriously???

[@janellewalters4222]

@@DownhillAllTheWay I'm just saying the route the mold took turned out to be more efficient. It's really an incredible experiment. I was amazed.

[@singingcat02]

@@DownhillAllTheWay Railroad systems don’t just follow the most efficient way, otherwise every single train line would be straight from point A to point B. There need to work around things that can’t be reproduced in a simulation with a few cornflakes. Cities are all built at different time periods, they have old existing pathways between them that highways often follow, the country has a budget to build the system, railroads aren’t all built at the same time, et cætera. So engineers won’t necessarily make it the most efficient, they’ll make it the most practical. The amoeba however, not having as many rules to respect and building its own system all at once, can afford more things and yes, it can be more efficient. Doesn’t make the engineers dumber tho

[@atienzaxndrjind.2385]

It's only a matter of time until jerry grows self-awareness and takes over the world

[@Stallion2013]

BRO ITS TIME YOU HAVE TO HE-AAAAA(dies)

[@LampseekerForevermore]

A fungus or amoeba wouldn’t need to be self-aware to take over the world.

[@mylesmichel9108]

​@@LampseekerForevermoreit's a Blob Neither animal, neither vegetal, neither fungi

[@talhashah9594]

Better than humans

[@jimmythearsonist451]

It is a prokaryotic organism

[@heyimstillhere5282]

"do you have any pets?" "yea, i got a pet mold."

[@ZebraLuv]

me too. he seems to like pizza the most.

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

"My pet mold rearranged the subway system what did your dog do for you?"

[@Nutleader]

Funny.

[@aurkeehaalchaal]

Mould*

[@josepacheco9479]

And I have a pet Rock 🪨

[@gene1491]

We gave jerry sentience and he asked us to end his existence. We fed him oats instead and he liked that.

[@maowav]

Sounds like a line from Undertale tbh

[@sausagemcmuffin7419]

This made me belly laugh l, thank you.

[@aatiftazwar6902]

Oat👍

[@harlothex3326]

fullmetal alchemist

[@Dragoncos]

my name is now Jerry

[@Big_O_Turd]

“Jerry is a giant, single cell with no neurons…” Yeah, me too, Jerry

[@FunnySillyWizard]

:')

[@poohcatchyou3917]

Me three! 😂

[@mid-tierplayer1]

​@@poohcatchyou3917 😂😂😂😂 it's not funny delete your comment before people start getting stage 5 cancer from your cringyness

[@sirthisisawendys811]

Me four

[@Joker-wt1pj]

Me five

[@Akai007]

Jerry looks like lightning trying to find the shortest way to earth.

[@jamescheddar4896]

what if we can mutate it to be a semi-conductor?

[@randomd2146]

​@@jamescheddar4896that could be interesting and useful but idk if it is possible

[@andrewthag]

Doesn't lightning take the path of least resistance? A lil different than shortest path?

[@abraxasjinx5207]

​@@randomd2146it could also be as detrimental or worse than atomic explosive technology.

[@TheCompleteMental]

Same with erosion patterns. Path of least resistance always looks awesome.

[@notsae66]

I fuckin' love slime molds! They're such weird little goobers, just slimin' about and somehow doing complex calculations without any known method of even thinking at all! Crazy stuff, glad these little blobs aren't hostile to people.

[@epochnoir3215]

It's fascinating how you can see Jerry attempt different directions, but once he finds the right way, all of his energy focuses in the right direction. Edit: Thank you all for the likes! 🤯

[@thejwvariety]

amoebas-- they're just like us!

[@emstink]

I wonder how Jerry realises it's there. Obviously he doesn't have eyes, I wonder if the food leaks somewhat into the agar, proportional to the mass of the food, and he can detect that? Or is he detecting it from the air

[@twojastara5462]

@@emstink this is overkill. This creature, like many other organisms, simply goes for food

[@happychicken4292]

​@@twojastara5462 Yes but how does it know where the food is? That's what we're wondering

[@TOBY-jy7bz]

​@@twojastara5462 yeah, and how does he go for food he doesnt know where it is? It would be more logical if he just searched over all the maze for food but whenever he chose the wrong way he very quickly corrected himself

[@mrchief7836]

Jerry is going to take over my body, give me super human powers, talk to me, eat people, and rename itself venom isn't it

[@viddergrapho8488]

"JERALD!!" "My name is VENOM!!" "I don't care, quit eating people!"

[@Asdf-jy5ts]

Nah Jerry is cool

[@sleeper5905]

​@@wesleyswafford2462 that is something humanity should fear

[@hesus1474]

yes

[@petyr33]

There's a movie in which Jerry is the main character

[@MJSK_7]

my favorite part is when jerry said "its jerryin time" and jerryed to the exit

[@pbnuyda1692]

Everybody gangsta till Jerry turns into a real scp

[@niccologravili2840]

Jerry just did his homework and studied graph search algorithms .

[@alakani]

Now tell me how plant antennas do backpropagation :p

[@TheKomentor]

I hate that even animals are being given gender-neutral pronouns these days. He called Jerry a "they" when everyone knows a Jerry is a 'he'.

[@alakani]

@@TheKomentor എല്ലാവരും നിങ്ങൾ ഒരു ട്രോൾ ആണെന്ന് അറിയുന്നു

[@movrew]

prolly cousin of bellman ford

[@luna7541]

​@@TheKomentor it's probably just proper grammar

[@MrMk2ful]

PLEASE do more of these, looks fascinating, there’s a whole video how Jerry was used to rearrange the Tokyo subway to make it more efficient

[@MrSaber]

What video????!!!

[@Zaina_Alsalman]

^^ do you remember what video it was? That sounds super interesting

[@katieguthu3371]

@@MrSaber just look up slime mold tokyo subway and youll find, it literally takes two seconds to google

[@Nefariously_ignorant]

Jerry can't build things, you silly goose

[@Skanerio]

​@@Nefariously_ignorant ​​he evolved to be bigger, smarter and stronger, almost the size of a skyscraper, making him capable of rearranging a whole city as he wishes

[@ST0IC]

"Get a job, Jerry!" -Rick C-137

[@AnoraJohnson]

*Make a maze with **_two_** finishes* - one with food, one with a material Jerry hates. I want to see how Jerry responds.

[@AnoraJohnson]

*closely adjacent* finishes. But not quite touching. Please don't poison Jerry's food.

[@YoutubePizzer]

well since you gave him a name i can’t be horrified

[@ad0m_602]

LOL

[@froilanflorentino1252]

Oh that's just Jerry doing his thing.

[@darkberserker94]

Dont know if it's true but i heard that someone (im guessing Japan) made this on a maze shaped like the underground of Tokyo where the treats simulated the metro stops, so the amoeba made a map of an optimal metro lines distribution

[@wanderer5438]

It's true, ZeFrank has a video on it, I highly recommend watching it, it's one of the coolest things you'll see in your life.

[@Ghost-nd8up]

True ants do the same

[@Relkond]

Not sure if they did it for designing the system, or just to test the slime mold, but yeah, when you compare what a slime mod does to what the actual routes are, the results are surprisingly similar.

[@AmulekkofWOW90]

It's true, Japan's current rail system was mostly designed by a slime mold. They had to adjust a few things, because one path lead straight through a mountain, another a lake lol. But they didn't set up a maze, it was a flat surface, allowing it to go straight towards each oat. What they were looking for specifically was more efficient paths between the stations. Larger, more important stations were represented by larger oats. So the slime mold did spread out and grabbed all the oats, but eventually contracted itself to pathways between the oats, small lanes on the outskirts and larger lanes between the major stations. 👍

[@pleonexia4772]

You saw it on a KZbin short just like this

[@fast-toast]

When a cell is smarter than you.

[@Zoosarntvalid]

The fact slime mold is smarter then some people and it has no neurons.

[@SmashPortal]

than*

[@Zoosarntvalid]

@@SmashPortal thx 👍

[@fallofaclif]

Final Maze: "TODAY GUYS, WE WILL PUT JERRY IN THE BACKROOMS."

[@calcium_skeleton]

He escaped in one year, he is now currently taking over the backrooms

[@FluoxetinaBelcher]

Idk why but that made me feel very uneasy

[@jenniferpendleton8463]

Is he gonna feed on all the people who wander in? Wait, is he why nobody escapes the backrooms? 😮😂

[@lathalatha-ri4dt]

poolrooms exactly

[@factsboutnature]

do you ever wonder why level 1 is yellow

[@danser_theplayer01]

How is "one cell" so stretchy?? It's like me turning into a goddamn forest in a few days.

[@rustyshackleford9888]

Slime molds are amoebozoans and are single enclosed cells with thousands of nuclei. Like other amoebae, they have very flexible cytoskeletons (the filament structures inside all cells) that can grow or shrink rapidly to drastically change the overall shape of the cell. Slime molds move with protrusions from their membrane called pseudopodia to "crawl" along a surface. The cytoskeletal filaments inside the cell grow in length near the membrane in the direction the cell wants to go, "pushing" the cell membrane out as they do, and the cytoplasm from the rest of the body fills the new pseudopod. Elsewhere on the cell, pseudopodia shrink as the filaments and cytoplasm inside the pseudopodia return to the main body region. So the overall volume of the cell stays the same, and the cell membrane itself is not really being stretched.

[@doingbettereveryday]

Wait... You're not a forest?? MY LIFE IS A F***ING LIE!!!!!!!!!!

[@Ronald98]

​@@rustyshackleford9888So is this thing actually alive?

[@rustyshackleford9888]

@Ronald 98 yep-slime molds are living organisms that eat, breathe, and reproduce. They belong to the eukaryotic group Amoebozoa, which is named after the amoeba-like life stage that most amoebozoans go through in their life cycle. Some groups of amoebozoans have evolved the ability where the individual microscopic amoebae can congregate and fuse together into a macroscopic structure called a plasmodium. This is what slime molds are. The plasmodium of this slime mold that you see here is just one part of its life cycle. Amoebozoans are all descended from a common ancestor that diverged from other eukaryotes some 1.5 to 2 billion years ago. They are very distant relatives to fungi and animals but are more closely related to fungi and animals than they are to plants and algae.

[@Ronald98]

@@rustyshackleford9888 Amazing, thanks for actually explaining what i was seeing, really appreciate it 👍

[@billjenkins5693]

The beginning of a 1950s horror movie

[@Infection81]

Jerry is smarter then 90% of tiktok

[@biggertin_ounce]

fax

[@novaraupp8096]

You mean 100%?

[@biggertin_ounce]

oh yeah@@novaraupp8096

[@GlitchyDarkness2]

@@novaraupp8096no, some TikTok users are actually pretty smart, not every one of them is eating detergent for a challenge

[@M00N3CL1SPE]

As much as I hate TikTok sometimes, you do forget KZbin shorts has "skibidi toilet". A series of singing heads in toilets for drooling toddlers. I'd argue he's smarter than 90% of yt shorts viewers.

[@TheDoctorFormerlyKnownAsMybutt]

Inevitably, you’re gonna slip up and Jerry is gonna eat you for breakfast.

[@ratpongkraiwiwat5988]

*eat us all for breakfast* fixed

[@littlefox_100]

​@@ratpongkraiwiwat5988 ok who's first?

[@sathishs7238]

@@ratpongkraiwiwat5988 mike the clicker

[@roxyraccoon9126]

Here's a fun fact: They tested this amoeba by placing food mapping out the cities around Tokyo, then let the amoeba work. The amoeba perfectly mapped out the train system connecting Tokyo and the other cities. Edit: If you're heading down to the comments, be sure to wear a hazmat suit. Divinity's toxic stupidity radiation is off the charts.

[@AriusAB]

"re-arranged* it optimized the japanese train system better than the engineers. meaning this amoeba is able to create the most efficient networks which is mind blowing

[@_divinityyy]

What’s so fun about that fact

[@2alsen]

@@_divinityyy what isn'T fun about it ?

[@_divinityyy]

@@2alsen idk let me check………. Oh yeah, nothing is. 😐

[@2alsen]

@@_divinityyy you're lame, it's an interesting science fact

[@miaomiaochan]

Naming a slime mold Jerry is like naming a cat Donna, as someone I know did. There's something hysterical about giving non-human things ordinary human names.

[@nunogil1365]

That Jerry is definitly a SURVIVOR

[@saihemanth3704]

Jerry's pov: The time I got reincarnated as a slime to solve puzzles

[@HelloThere.....]

It's called chemotaxis. The slime leaves behind chemicals as it finds its path, and once it finds its target, it can chemically sense the chemical concentration gradient of what it left behind and remember how to return to the original spore. It also can do this to the carbohydrates and organic molecules that indicate a food source.

[@helenaduarte60]

Thank you, I was so confused lol

[@davitucsonn2243]

we are never safe

[@geort45]

damn

[@jan-lukas]

Sounds like an optimization of Dijkstras algorithm where you also put in a gradient. It's a path-finding algorithm

[@iiGORO333]

Sooo....zombies are possible

[@roycebutler6551]

I think we need to contain Jerry before he becomes a global threat

[@abraxasjinx5207]

That would be the capitalist thing to do.

[@acrj-alfasaus4825]

sounds like o5-02

[@tadasturonis]

many AI doomers would share that sentiment

[@Phildo8]

Jerry also showed the Japanese how to redesign the whole Tokyo subway system in a more efficient way than it was before

[@AlbySilly]

I'm assuming that it can sense the "smell" from the oaty agar because some of the oat is soluble

[@CameraHam]

@@grapesurgeonreal.

[@casey-gt8nl]

No - They search by branching out in a bunch of random directions. If a “branch” finds an oat, the branch thickens itself and transfers resources to the place where all the branches connect. It’s the same principle/mechanism ants use to find food.

[@casey-gt8nl]

@@grapesurgeon yeaaa but it could also be thickening because it’s already reached the oat flake and is actively transferring resources back

[@marcosfern777]

@@casey-gt8nl it’s def not as random as you think

[@jodygarcia9892]

​@Marcos Paiva some of the legs could be so thin you cant see it

[@connorkenway1188]

Jerry made mike a clicker. I’m very proud of jerry

[@mikedanielespeja6128]

Yeah, without my consent. Rude.

[@wilfredrowanserilo3234]

​@Mike Daniel Espeja this is Mike,and h-

[@fanndyeffendy2672]

MIKE HAS GROWN TO BE SENTIENT GRAB THE GUNS!

[@tosiotosiowski8054]

HE ISNT GOING DOWN!!!

[@ineedseaweed]

Mike is now a shambler-

[@eltonjohnsrightnut]

it’s all fun and games until jerry gets out.

[@ScottMcMaster-er4xj]

What's really impressive is that Jerry also operated the camera, edited the video, narrated, and posted the video.

[@Daniel-Santillan]

It's all fun and games until Jerry brakes out of the lab and now we're running from zombies that can solve complex mazes 😳

[@cabbagesandcabbages2015]

I dont think we will be running

[@sojudog7388]

@@WWSovereignOfDuskRei TLOU reference

[@sojudog7388]

@@WWSovereignOfDuskRei pay attention to the shot where the ‘slime’ spreads through the maze. It’s really similar to cordyceps shown in the credits

[@kinghash29]

Next week we watch Jerry break containment and start attacking the lab staff! D:

[@tree1335]

just like Calvin

[@AirSkyyy]

omg

[@doodlesyoru2108]

I've seen a biological contamination that somehow has intelligence of sorts and is made of slime breaking out of containment before. Trust me, it would not be pretty.

[@mofru1t965]

​@@tree1335 Haha like Calvin going to eat earth whole

[@NotRealChatGPT]

oh no jerry noooo

[@jbpyle482]

Jerry can go all directions at once

[@flamegame5877]

Jerry may not have a brain, gentlemen; but Jerry has an idea.

[@Gustoberg]

you'll totally make it eat your house right? how did this turn into loli shit? also wow my most liked comment

[@lolicon453]

Just the parts of the house made out of oat flakes

[@psilocybicacid7667]

​@@lolicon453 sus username 🤨

[@SsSs-mi7xi]

Tasty planet reference?

[@mynameusedtobelong]

​@@psilocybicacid7667 naaah

[@brwed]

@@lolicon453 wtf is that name

[@s-viper1462]

We decided to feed Jerry to small, unsuspecting kids. He has now gained sentience and started a zombie apocalypse

[@AdimosMundi]

😂😨 Imagine this actually happens.

[@soacespacestation8556]

Haha nuke go brrrr!!!

[@Hevvvyyy]

We call him .. Gravemind

[@lkcullen1918]

so basically The Last Of Us lol

[@Jacksonwalker1]

I wonder if Jerry could remap my brain into a more efficient way.

[@Zer0EMJ]

He's smarter than all three of my cats combined

[@blazethefox5721]

I never thought i'd find mold cute.

[@merkon9442]

This feels like the sort of backhanded compliment that Rick might give to his son-in-law

[@lovinglust89]

😂

[@mrjames7919]

Daniel give me coffee

[@SirPano85]

Or a reference to the mould that Rick grow to make the Jerry's voice....

[@horcruxseverus]

A few months later, Jerry would be in a news headline causing ruckus all over the world reducing humanity to 2 percent

[@DBT1007]

Jerry tired to the oat so Jerry eats human now😅

[@AnthonyBlamthony]

“I wanna eat! I want food! Meat! I’m tired of drinking, I wanna chew…”

[@stevenhuckabay7997]

If the population was down to 2 percent then there would be no news headline now would there? 🤔😶

[@fbeshir1163]

Jerry can go into NEUROLINK business

[@Colin866]

People getting stuck in corn mazes meanwhile a yellow string can track oats

[@Joseph_yy]

Next video: Jerry solved world hunger.

[@michaelohene8428]

this world is weird, Jerry can actually do that

[@MCIsSquared]

The fact that something as minuscule as Jerry is able to figure out how to escape a maze is amazing.

[@CitritRay]

Jerry might be just a tad smarter then me

[@BackwoodsSmoke-ug3lf]

Imagine a city model and letting it pick the best route to different locations

[@GratefulEd907]

Your Uber driver Jerry will be arriving shortly

[@johngabrielcastillo719]

Tokyo did that

[@YamiLunaria]

​@@johngabrielcastillo719 fr?

[@Palermando]

​@@YamiLunaria Yeah, they were having trouble connecting the city's subways (of which there were many) so they decided to use a Jerry for that, and he did it better than a whole team of engineers.

[@Reulorics]

@@Palermando Lol you're playing a game of telephone with that info. You got some less than credible details there.

[@duskmoon181]

Jerry: spreads through the maze *Last of Us theme swells*

[@jills_valentin3TTV]

exactly what i thought 😂💀

[@tushitarao6846]

Cordeceps

[@furkantryt]

No one: Its Jerry! JJBA fans: Man Its Survivor from Stone Ocean🗿

[@Simon0830]

st.fu you are not even funny.

[@engigaming-rq3bz]

Jerry lookin like the survivor stand from Jojo 😭

[@betterlifeexe4378]

You should aggressively breed for Jerry versions that are better at solving the maze

[@Minacious_Shenanigans]

lmao 💀😭

[@davemiller638]

Jerry the 300th will be able to solve impossible mazes within seconds, for an oat of course

[@Borgforce]

Blatantly haven’t seen little shop of horrors… anyone that has watched it would NEVER suggest that as an option 😅

[@matthewsalmon2013]

Usually that kind of overspecialization leads to poor adaptation to different kinds of challenges.

[@haykmelikyan7796]

BetterLife exe people like you scare me

[@drako7222]

So I'm curious if microscopically he already spread across the entire maze then just grew larger colonies that are visible with the naked eye to transport the food most efficiently, you should set up a maze with a few spots that you would have a microscope on at all times one being at a far dead end, one in the middle and one near the end food and watch how soon Jerry spreads on a microscopic level

[@Paul.......]

Ohhhhhh that would explain it

[@alexstone691]

I would really like to see this

[@asdfghyter]

he probably felt a gradient of trace amounts of the grain in the solution which lets him be more directed

[@wuwu1598]

​@@asdfghyter he doesn't have a brain

[@josephramirez2644]

​@@asdfghyter without neurons?

[@maparaccoon350]

I think Jerry is following a nutrient gradient in the agar. As the oat is sitting to the agar, tiny particles are breaking off and dissolving in the agar (or something to that effect), and once this cloud of nutrients reaches Jerry, all he has to do is grow in the direction of increasing nutrient concentration.

[@ImOverleveled420]

but that assumes that the oat particles dissolve throughout the entire agar of the maze. I wouldn't expect the cloud of particles to be too far from the oats itself so I don't think it really pathfinds through that method.

[@maparaccoon350]

@@ImOverleveled420 Yeah I'm not really sure how exactly it would spread out if at all. But I noticed that at the very beginning, it doesn't really need to follow anything since there's only one path for the first part of the maze, so the nutrients from the oat in the middle don't need to spread very far. Then, when it hits the oat in the middle, it stops for a while before starting to grow towards the end of the maze, which to me could be explained by the cloud of nutrients from the oats at the end taking some time to reach the middle.

[@kennyjandreau1758]

Jerry is love...jerry is life...

[@Just_Mothman_things]

I can not describe the amount of fear this tiny yellow amoeba thingy is giving me right now.

[@chocolife5181]

Same I can't understand how people seem so normal about it, I'm terrified

[@nirorit]

Why?

[@Nation_of_Imagination]

​@@chocolife5181 ?

[@holidayin7962]

Are you an oat?

[@Just_Mothman_things]

@@holidayin7962 yes

[@emiliocespedes3685]

They also have memory, so maybe you could train it on the same maze and see if it solves it faster with every try. ❤

[@Natalie_Val]

​@@Dumpster_Fire_Opinions some do

[@TamuTamuOnigiri]

​@@Dumpster_Fire_Opinions some cells absolutely have memories. Its how your body's cells can remember previous infections you've fought!

[@Natalie_Val]

@@TamuTamuOnigiri Yes, eg the t-lymphocytes in white blood cells

[@capybara9521]

​@@Natalie_Valproof ?

[@capybara9521]

​@@TamuTamuOnigirinot how it works at all.

[@quandal1633]

Everyone gangsta till the slime mold turns red

[@gerelectric1171]

he looks like he makes people angry with water

[@xX_NightmarePickle_Xx]

Japan’s did an experiment like this and the slime basically remade their transportation system more efficient

[@percanatord3461]

We know we've all seen that Joe Rogan clip

[@ChestersonJack]

Ooh neat! I’ll have to look up more about that.

[@NickWrightDataYT]

The food just slightly diffuses into the agar, and Jerry just moves in the path of highest concentration. It's no different than what pretty much every other single celled organism does, but on a Macroscopic level instead of Microscopic.

[@mikecook8667]

Jesus, why is no one else saying this??

[@loksterization]

@@mikecook8667 do you know Jesus as your Lord and saviour?

[@wolfiemuse]

@@loksterizationI know him as the historical figure that we likely don’t understand even a 10th of who the actual person was or what he was like. Sure. I know him as well as you do.

[@loksterization]

@@wolfiemuse actually, you can get to know Jesus really well, even today... because he reveals himself to those who seek him. And he has personally touched me, so I know the Lord in a very intimate way. He is awesome, he is our creator and he loves us more than anyone can imagine. He knows everything about you...even what you think, what is in your heart.

[@andrewkvk1707]

​@@loksterization ask Jesus what number I'm thinking of.

[@berrystarcreations]

it's crazy to me how a slime that cannot by definition think can solve a maze like this

[@Vetaul]

Jerry the slime mold is smarter than some adult people out there btw.

[@robertweekes5783]

I suspect the slime mold detects traces of food particles floating in the substrate - it knows which path to follow based on scent basically

[@calcium_skeleton]

Still doesn’t make much sense considering how it always finds he most direct path towards the food and the food particles would be everywhere in a certain radius of the oats because of diffusion and it’s confusing still, I had this idea it used small tendrils to search for food but that doesn’t make sense because then it would just grow from the already made tendril but maybe it does do that but it’s more efficient and faster in the main clump idk.

[@lazysnail145]

@@calcium_skeleton shortest path will have strongest smell, kinda obvious

[@capybara9521]

Nope

[@capybara9521]

​@@lazysnail145you're wrong

[@musicbruh803]

Ooo I keep and breed these guys. I prefer to use a fine wet sand as a substrate rather than agar since sand doesn't mold. However I know agar is much more lab-friendly.

[@randoms2222]

Where do you get them? On rocks or trees? Or is there a store for them?

[@musicbruh803]

@Random Thing"s you can find wild ones but it depends on your location. You may look up if physarium is native to your area. If it is you can find it traveling around on the forest floor eating bacteria and fungi that grow in damp leaf piles and soggy rotting logs

[@randoms2222]

@@musicbruh803 thank you. Bacteria and fungi have always interested me.

[@fire_blast_boy2273]

Everybody gangsta until Jerry breaks out and mutates into a new species

[@wabug]

Ngl jerry on the plate looks like survivor from jojo lmao

[@ClaySTurner]

I have always wanted to see a version of this experiment where some of the bait(oats) are removed RIGHT before the slime mold is added to the agar. I suspect that some compounds from the oat bait is diffusing through the agar (or above the agar, in the air), before the slime mold is added. If that is the case, then it is not as amazing that the slime mold can follow the trail back to the source of the compound it senses right away - there is going to be a natural gradient from the start point to the nearest source of food, such that the concentration of the diffused bait compound increases with proximity to the bait itself. So, removing the intermediary "treat" bait would test this hypothesis. If you allow TWO routes to the bait station, with a "treat" payload along the longer route, then you can test the intelligence of the slime mold by removing the "treat" payload RIGHT before adding the slime mold and seeing if the mold chooses the long route or the short route to the main bait station.

[@trucido_9940]

i think your right that should be a test. also i would like to compliment how well written and understandable your hypothesis is.

[@ClaySTurner]

@Trucido_99 Thanks! :D I was thinking about it after writing: It actually IS still pretty cool that a single celled organism can find food by following a chemical concentration gradient too, if that is the case!

[@MichaelBW-bn9gf]

​@@ClaySTurner it is cool.

[@thatguy431]

​@@ClaySTurner it is very cool, but all those hypotheses are definitely worth testing!

[@nomaray2020]

Listen up people. This man actually knows what he's talking about.

[@jerosjulianjr.infante7971]

A slime mold once was placed on a map of Tokyo with food placed in key areas of Tokyo. The mold ended up replicating the tracks of the Surface Railway Network

[@stellaprasad9453]

They bouta create "The last of Us" virus with this one☠️💀

[@Watermeloncat7100]

Nahh, he's just an amoeba!

[@ozwalled2007]

If I'm to believe a certain Dr. Claypool, Jerry was a racecar driver.

[@SighsInternally]

have you considered the oatmeal diffused through the agar and the mold just followed the trail?

[@ThePower1037]

Just my thoughts exactly!

[@tristan7216]

Exactly. It didn't explore the maize, it just followed the nutrient gradient, a wonderful phrase I learned from "The Expanse".

[@KodasGarden]

Yes that's what's actually happening, but it doesn't sound nearly as great for the entertainment value

[@anonymousinfinido2540]

​@@tristan7216 a yeah, Nuke ball yum-yum, Rocinate exhaust barbeque.

[@CertifiedClapaholic]

Ah yes, I just asked this a minute ago before seeing this video

[@optillian4182]

It's all fun and games until Jerry becomes self-aware and escapes.

[@Kalizoid]

Jerry looks like he’s about to kill Ryan Reynolds pretty soon..

[@owke.o.IYIkj.go___]

it's all fun in games until it escapes and begins bonding to you like a symbiote 💀

[@Seattle_Ellie]

And that ladies and Gentlemen, is how The Last Of Us was created

[@ElectricityRaichu]

Bacteria doesn't means zombie lmao.

[@ElectricityRaichu]

I have a question, do you like any other game other than a horror game?

[@ISSAXO3]

i was looking for this cmnt xDDD

[@flaxco]

burn it

[@zengetsugaming1990]

So you better kill it before it becone alien monstrosity like in the movie LIFE

[@callowaydeschain1163]

If I could go in multiple directions at once I too would appear to be a maze genius.

[@kielandrearienza]

Everyone Gangsta till Jerry gets out that thing, kills everyone and makes his own civilization

[@RonCadillac]

Couldn't Jerry sense microscopic amounts of the oats in the liquid agar, following the small trail of oatyness?

[@HamidKarzai]

that's probably what happened, there wouldn't be any other way for it to get information about the location of the food so quickly

[@Faherd]

only comment i saw about this, thank u for thinking

[@ghostderazgriz]

Jerry doesn't have senses, it's a single cell slime mold. There is no sensory organelles. No taste, touch, vibration, balance, temperature, or anything else. This yellow slime can memorize paths, and find food with literally no way to do any of that. That's why scientists are fascinated.

[@munsanda]

How about elevating the oats a little so there’s no oatyness in the liquid yeah?

[@manoocgegr1364]

Most probably thats the case. Treat was diffused in the medium. The more closer Jerry was to treat the faster he was. Treat concentration is higher closer to source

[@apemancommeth8087]

Now that’s the kinda pet I like, just slightly more interesting and intelligent as my old pet rock!

[@noblereign492]

Maybe what gives it the feeling he's going straight to the end is the micro nutrients being leached from the food source into the substrate almost leaving a 'trail'... Awesome to watch.

[@joaojonito3764]

Imagine you come into existence as a mold in a lab

[@Pooopers]

Could you perform this experiment again in a humidity-controlled environment, so you don't need to add so much liquid to the maze? It would appear some people think that compounds in the "food source" are saturating the liquid, and somehow skewing the results.

[@timinatorlp9524]

It's Agar, it becomes solid once it is cooled. It wouldn't matter how much is in there, the compounds would diffuse anyway as long as there is continuous coverage. They already know it works by recognising the diffused compounds, but it would make the video less mysterious if they mentioned it.

[@lesussie2237]

That may cause the slime mold to movw across the maze walls

[@demircan_demirbag]

Timinator I love clever people

[@life42theuniverse]

The food doesn’t need to be saturated in the liquid I think a density gradient is guiding it. Perhaps a gradient into a dead end?

[@seronymus]

How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast yesterday

[@GundownShowdown]

Dijkstra has been real quiet since Jerry appeared

[@ilikegoofystuff]

Ive seen enough horror movies to know that jerry might not be so kind later on

[@ultimategotea]

Jerry the slime is real now? Call the Captain!

[@faielgila7375]

I'm so glad someone else gets it!

[@ZeroDarkness-]

Now who's going to be... Tom?

[@ListenToAJ]

i was looking for this comment lmao

[@S-CB-SL-Animations]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sklt00n]

Someone got the reference 🥲

[@daveedoff6258]

One interesting thing about slime molds is that if you put them in the same maze, they will remember the solution and do it correctly on the first try

[@robertevans714]

wat

[@Ganondorf_]

So Star Wars had: "This is no Moon" I say:" This is no Jerry, this is fricking Mini Venom in Yellow"

[@diegoreckholder945]

"Put a sample of Jerry", but without context

[@peconi47]

I love it that it's still smarter than some people I know

[@DonatelloHamato.]

Lmao xD

[@sirisrex7542]

its not though. the oat dispersed into the media and the slime followed the nutrient gradient. you can't display intelligence if you lack information, jerry isn't psychic and it didn't explore the environment equally, it made a direct line to the food so its obvious it was picking up chemical information pertaining to it

[@HelloThere.....]

But this isn’t intelligence. This is the equivalent of you finding where the source of weed smoke is in a maze. You can smell the weed, and as you get closer, the smell gets stronger. You could do this too. However, let's say the environment has multiple different facilities. A living room with couches and stuff, and multiple fitness areas. A human would be able to just go right to the living room to find the potheads and read the signs pointing there, whereas this thing couldn't. A human would find it faster. We can think and this thing cannot, it is just using instinct and advanced chemical senses.

[@ignismaniaco9935]

@@HelloThere..... sounds like intelligence.

[@peconi47]

@@HelloThere..... its still smarter than the people i know

[@potatosoyumyum]

bro gonna infiltrate area 51 with 1 single cell

[@TeaLurker]

"What pet do you have?" "Jerry"

[@tyrannosauruswrex123]

When you adopt a slime mold from the pet store 😁

[@ahhhhhhhh5071]

I remember them talking about how japan used slime molds to create faster underground subway routes, or sum like that