Is Slime Mold Actually Intelligent? New Studies Suggest So

[@moonled]

So when it grows into a giant monster, it already knows the layout of Tokyo.

[@detocquevi11e]

....and other major cities of the world. Yes, this was my main takeaway from this video.

[@TheDemontr1]

explains why Kaijus attack its always one of them big cities!

[@lusoverse8710]

"It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train-a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter." Lovecraft, of course.

[@BeelzebubBeelzebub]

Go Chowder!

[@TwoDogsFighting]

MECHASLIME.

[@MicraHakkinen]

12:12 "It really means that the brain itself is absolutely not a requirement for finding intelligence" This is exciting news for a great many people!

[@stereoheart.sachii]

Loll

[@feedbackzaloop]

however it is more common to have an opposite statement true: the brain is not a guarantee of intelligence

[@haywirefive]

Lol was thinking that aswell

[@prioris55555]

Science and politics are very intertwined hence corrupted and hidden agendas abound. It's been very clear to me since over 30 years ago that our intelligence derives from the spiritual. Since the spiritual realm has been placed off limits for study, science stagnates. I think it was Tesla who said until physics goes beyond the matter world, progress in physics will stagnate. The organic structures exist to allow us to interact with this realm but intelligence derives from the spiritual realm. Global warming, big bang theory and covid scare, vaccinations and shutdown derive from monumental scientific fraud and political hidden agendas.

[@MicraHakkinen]

@@prioris55555 I delight in the irony of your response to my comment.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

There have been studies done on plants showing learned reactivity and memory as well (also without neurons). "Intelligence" isn't what people assume. It's not limited to neurons.

[@asimian8500]

Well said. In the near future, humanity will understand that biological neurons aren't necessary when we have true AI.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

@@asimian8500 I wouldn't be entirely surprised if it was discovered the Universe is intelligent. Any system capable of organizing information... has that capability.

[@asimian8500]

@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 I agree. There's the Gaia Hypothesis which is about the Earth and consequently the Universe being alive and can be extended to intelligence as well. Images of the Cosmic Web connecting Galaxies and Clusters look like images of neurons in the brain. The Ancient Greeks believed the Cosmos to be alive and intelligent. The primordial deities before the Titans were the embodiment of that cosmic intelligence. The first primordial deity was hatched from a egg. It does sound like the Big Bang.

[@paulg3336]

@@asimian8500 Actually The Gaia Hypothesis says the earth behaves like it is an organism ,not that it is intelligent. For instance it has an "immune system" to control "cancer" (think: today's pandemic pathogens and humanity)

[@ryanhocstetler]

It's been said the distinction between eastern and western philosophy is the hypothesis of where consciousness comes from. Is it generated by the brain? Or is the brain 'tuning in' to a consciousness which exists throughout the universe. I'm reminded of the electric universe

[@PatrikDhaeseleer]

Intelligent? Well it managed to get itself a ride to the space station, didn't it? I'd say that makes it smarter than me at least...

[@deekamikaze]

It's trying to hitch a ride back to its home planet

[@alfredoespino9026]

Sense of humor, sometimes expression of sophisticated intelligence too.

[@Foolish188]

I once spent hours watching a slime mold climb up the side of a fallen tree, and then climb all the way back down. It was fascinating, but slow.

[@gastonpossel]

If taped in 4K, would be an interesting adition to slow TV trend (which -surprisingly- has an audience)

[@solarnaut]

don't look now, but the neighbor just painted his house . . . and the paint . . . i s . . . D . . . R . . . Y . . . I . . . N . . . G ! B-)

[@TerenceMichaelReeves]

Post it! People wanna see that!

[@Foolish188]

@@TerenceMichaelReeves This was in the late 1990s, and I didn't have any way to record it back then. But next time I see one, I will try.

[@couriebrinsonj2552]

Maybe it's eating people that's why people go missing. Ya never know.

[@mechatomb2921]

“It might be intelligent.” “Let’s put it on a robot.”

[@mechatomb2921]

@@BrandonRutledgeS you say that, but my toddler just dropped a full glass of water on my laptop. I’m here trying to dry it out and praying it survived

[@sMASHsound]

bruh.....

[@NamePlaceHolder372]

Famous last words before disaster

[@superitgel1]

Shinji! Get into the robot!

[@billcar6805]

@@mechatomb2921 'I’m here trying to dry ' Maybe try something different to dry it?

[@Icecypher]

Protecting the audience from spoilers for a 1958 film, more people should be like you. 💚

[@caiusmadison2996]

Remake in the 80's.

[@blu-birb]

TL;DR: Snape is Luke's Father

[@AquariusScanner]

You should just watch the media and not be concerned over spoilers for a movie that was in the past before you were even born. Utterly selfish loser

[@blu-birb]

@@AquariusScanner TL;DR: "Baaaa"

[@Icecypher]

@@AquariusScanner, you are so funny.

[@rufussprague6407]

I had a pet slime mold back in high school. “Steve” ate well while I was its caretaker. I eventually put it back in the woods where I collected it from.

[@Crackhouts]

If you love something ...

[@intricatic]

One day, you'll find Steve under your refrigerator and you'll know you made a friend.

[@garryiglesias4074]

Steve, because he had a tendency to escape ?

[@1950Chimaera]

@@Crackhouts Get a pre-nup...

[@1950Chimaera]

@@Crackhouts Get a pre-nup...

[@t3h51d3w1nd3r]

We've found Odo, the first changling to reach the alpha quadrant, in 50 years he'll take on humanoid form, pursue justice and enforce the law in a balanced and analytical way.

[@Karlandra]

once he pulls himself back together.

[@solarnaut]

Hopefully we'll still be here by the time he's ready to save us from ourselves ! B-)

[@Jack2200]

He already did. He was metastasizing for two years in a basement, took a human form and now answers to the name Joe. Now he tells all Americans to stay locked up and out of the sunlight... ;)

[@mishochko]

It has ascended the limitations of the human form, dear.

[@blu3260]

@@Jack2200 Someone's salty, it's okay the slime molds can help you find your sucrose.

[@FrappuccinoAlfredo]

Time lapses of it branching out remind me of the “lightning feelers” just before a lightning strike

[@IRMacGuyver]

Because that's what it is. It's not intelligence. It's just chemical response to attractants. The way lightening responds to magnetic and electrical attractants.

[@Thesamurai1999]

@@IRMacGuyver But a lightning can’t remember environments and anticipate different environments before it gets there.

[@IRMacGuyver]

@@Thesamurai1999 The mold only looks like it's anticipating. What it's doing is following chemical trails from the food source. And despite what people claim lightening does strike the same place twice because the electrical properties of tall buildings attract it the same way the food attracts the mold.

[@IRMacGuyver]

@Truth And freedom Chemical cycle response the same as why most animals go to sleep at night. That doesn't take intelligence.

[@kylekissack4633]

Everything in nature follows a pattern..the next time you see rain running down the windows in a car look at the veins running threw your arm and body it's just the way of things

[@Mediocreinput]

Plot Twist: When Anton says that he won't spoil _that_ movie, He refers to the situation we're right now and that mold in ISS will soon evolve in to the blob due to Rapid Evolution

[@waynegnarlie1]

In a sequel the slime mold could turn out to only be the third dimensional expression of a much more capable fourth dimensional organism. {Popcorn scatters in all directions} lol.

[@mjolnirswrath23]

Actually acidic mold brought down MIR it ate through the Hull of the space station.. it began on the OUTSIDE of the station

[@stefanb6539]

The blob will run as republican candidate for POTUS in 2028.... and win!

[@stevehead365]

And eat all the occupants.

[@MrRABC1]

@@stefanb6539 More likely the dem candidate, lol

[@SourceOfL]

"massive collaboration of billions of different cells" - that's exactly what we see when we look at mirror

[@BobDaSnowman]

My past acid trips can confirm

[@km5405]

yeah but we can look in the mirror and recoginize ourselves - and then ponder about that thought. complex emergent behaviour isnt necessarily the same as intelligence

[@DeuceGenius]

@@km5405 we don't intelligently control our cells and bodily functions. We don't make our skin heal when we get cut. They just do what they do. It's so fascinating

[@SourceOfL]

@@km5405 Yes, intelligence is a result of consciousness activity.

[@metametodo]

I believe he made a mistake, he probably should say multinuclear as he said so in the beginning. Multinuclear is easily confused with multicellular.

[@michaelsane6136]

Since grade school, I have always known that science looks at intelligence wrongly with too narrow of a focus on its definition. I believe they look at the definition of life with the same narrow focus. This is breakthrough science. I am happy to see this work being done with vigor.

[@Microplancakes]

I’ve always thought the same! Why would anyone think all life has to be like ours!

[@km5405]

its not really a breakthrough though, lots of organisms display this kind of emergent behaviour even if its more a automatic then a consicious response. the problem is we still dont quite have a idea where the line is between the two, and that line is probably incredibly fuzzy.

[@ariesx6515]

Science is currently doing this with consciousness as well. At least in my insignificant view 🙂

[@km5405]

@@ariesx6515 its not my field but i know enough that its way more complicated then people could ever have thought before. ..like we were promised ai by now but what was revealed was that it was a very complex thing. .... we have some ''ai's'' these days but they are not intelligent at all theyre just adaptable neural networks, which would be more similar to tiny brains in very small animals. it wont be long before we can just simulate a entire human brain (we probably already could, and some classified programs probably already have..sadly AI is going to be the next leap in military technology) and i do suspect that once we learn how to make a artificial consciousness we are going to get a idea of where the threshold is and what makes consciouness consciousness. (and hopefully not use them as tools for destruction against each other in the process)

[@TheFinagle]

@@km5405 We have lots of AI, have for decades. The problem is in the understanding of the terms. AI is ARTIFICIAL intelligence - meaning its faking intelligence with complexity and not performing true analytical decision making the way we think of human intelligence. The dream 'AI' like in sci-fi movies more accurately described as computerized intelligence - where it is intelligent in terms of analytical decision making (not just faking it through complexity) which we currently believe is only being done by humans and some animals, but it is not based in an organic structure, its based on some variant or descendant of microchip technology (or other technological device). In making that leap from our compures faking intellect to true computational intellect we will learn much about ourselves, although we may not like the answers.

[@Matthew-zs8nm]

The slime has convinced science to place it into space! The plot seems obvious!! 😆 Bro your channel is amazing. I always look forward to seeing more of your content. Be well, wonderful person!

[@PeterTheVald]

The slimes, done with the Earth, initiated phase three. The last one in the plan to return home. Has Elon been infected? Oh no! ;-)

[@jamesburnett7085]

This might be the most amazing, most fascinating, most astounding thing I have seen on KZbin. I had to pick my jaw up from the floor about 100 times.

[@planescaped]

"A primitive intelligence able to solve simple problems" ~ Creates subway system.

[@garryiglesias4074]

Network... Subway network.... NOT a subway "system".

[@teaser6089]

Sounds a lot like us xD

[@teaser6089]

@@garryiglesias4074 true, but everyone understood him, so it doesn't matter

[@godfree2canada]

Better and cheaper than Musk

[@johnassal5838]

@@godfree2canada Wait, this isn't Musk?

[@nerdmachine5551]

That's so cool! I used to think slime mold was really gross, but now I just think it's neat. It's fascinating that it switches between multiple single-celled organisms and one single-celled organism

[@jenglishmann2355]

“I just think they’re neat!” - Marge Simpson

[@tarjwilkinson8977]

It may be neat although what are humans doing to stop it noticing us as a threat

[@DrOtto-sx7cp]

@@tarjwilkinson8977 🤣

[@woadblue]

@@tarjwilkinson8977 I say, let it spread. Give it a shot at governance, what have we got to lose?

[@tarjwilkinson8977]

@@woadblue the universe supposedly is an illusion so we might just help it

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

This is one of your most interesting videos I've seen - and that's saying something!

[@MtnManLucas]

Incredible! Just 3 days ago I had a conversation with a stranger about fungi and slime mold... as a grad student he was researching a particular type of Slime Mold that exhibited some rather unusual traits...his findings got published ! Extremely adaptive and mobile beyond all , to that point, scientific observations.

[@ElsieDreamWorld]

This information is absolutely incredible, Anton! Will they be using this with AI sometime soon? I imagine the use for such an organism will be vast, let’s hope it doesn’t really become ‘The Blob’! On the other hand, I don’t remember plants having neurons, and yet they seem to have an intelligent response and communication between organisms, too. Thanks for posting and stay safe.

[@thomastmc]

Look up "The Secret Life of Plants" from 1979

[@sulijoo]

So fascinating. Maybe the mold is telling us more about the nature of mathematics and raw intelligence itself. The implications are mind-blowing.

[@ElkArrow]

Maybe not

[@Rivenburg-xd5yf]

fractile nature of solid state matter.

[@loris4142]

Paul Stamets

[@ThePowerfox18]

Emergence and intelligence is so interesting. If intelligence is a sliding scale, who says that the universe hasn’t a base consciousness and when we die we go back to that level. Just a thought 😅

[@johnassal5838]

Boltzmann Brain.

[@psyberklown3434]

Wait...slimeborgs exist, and we aren't talking about it more than 'cool experiment bro'. Also sending slimes into space sounds like the plot line to a 'Blob' reboot.

[@Arkzard]

Have you seen the horror sci fi movie Life?

[@moonled]

Have you seen the video game Carrion?

[@ssjusticess]

When none of you have played halo and it shows

[@Arkzard]

You talkin about the flood, lol course we did play halo, half of the people here has... the movie I cited was more similar to what is aboit to happen: a group of astronauts in this century will study a very intriguing form of life, lol. When one assumes stuff about others with limited information and it shows...

[@asahmosskmf4639]

They actually found some slime in space... hanging on outside the I.S.S. i believe. Scientists were thinking of using bacteria in micro-chips too. So... people are talking, just not most people lol...

[@ruthlessadmin]

Plot twist: the mold originally came from outer space. We've returned it to its natural habitat, where it will now grow out of control & consume the solar system.

[@zoastro]

Oh no!

[@ryanhocstetler]

There actually is concern about colonies of microorganisms growing giant (and immune to antibiotics) in microgravity

[@FuriousImp]

its*

[@ruthlessadmin]

@@FuriousImp thanks...I hate it when I do that.

[@FuriousImp]

@@ruthlessadmin Cool response :) You win coolness medal of the day award 🥇

[@FernandoQuevedo]

In the immortal words of Mr. Spock: “Fascinating”.

[@sleekoduck]

@Falcon Hyperion I was wondering when someone would bring up Discovery...

[@wholelottanumbersnotalotta6411]

Yes yes

[@theashpilez]

The thing, the blob, its coming...

[@boasgar]

"beautifully illustrated all is lost ants in my feelings or emotional extremists Words on the board of using traditional mini deathnote apply Which is useful to goods" never have your captions spoke so truly to my soul, Anton :D

[@hadeseye2297]

all is lost ... I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

[@josiahsmusicaccount]

This is fantastic!! When slime molds form their composites, as I understand it, their cell walls merge, leaving only the nucleus intact, so even the largest slime mold is still a single celled, multi-nucleated organism. Thanks for sharing about one of my absolute favorite life forms!

[@Ricky_B4]

Did you know that Hershey stores their chocolate in a huge vats. Why is that fact related to Anton’s mold video; the vats contain a mold that no matter what they do to clean it out they can’t kill it; they have tried for years but the mold is persistent and can’t be wiped out.

[@22patch22]

@@Ricky_B4 really ? No more hershey bars for me lol

[@oakstrong1]

@@Ricky_B4 Maybe that's why I don't like their chocolate, I consider it poor quality

[@EdgarAllan2pointPoe]

@@Ricky_B4 Would you mind sharing a source on that? My google-fu is not up to the task of finding information about this.

[@Conflict_Boardgaming]

Anton in 5 years after slime mold rules over us... "We were right about slime mold being intelligent."

[@thefirstsin]

Now combine our brains

[@hamishfox]

I for one welcome our new slime mold overlords.

[@bluebird3281]

Hello beautiful nuclei !

[@kevinscholer256]

You hear someone using your phone in the other room, it's on wiki learning like the fifth element

[@kevinscholer256]

@@hamishfox we thought they were brain slugs turns out slime molds turn into slugs shapes as a scapegoat, yeah totally slugs making most of you slaves....

[@wayneshirey6999]

Another WOW video. Thanks, Anton. Very thought provoking.

[@johncgibson4720]

The path finding algorithms are always very simple in the fundamental steps, so, as long as the cell plasma allows the chemical signal to travel, the shortest path construction will just naturally occur. The timing rhythm is tuned to the artificial rhythm the same way human's melatonin cycle is adjusted by light. No neuron is required if the plasma allows the chemical signaling.

[@RolaiEckolo]

Such a neat workaround to how we'd traditionally expect

[@MikeR33D]

Pathfinding may be simple, but the greater surprise is it was preparing itself for cold dry conditions that had been happening every 60 min even after the researchers stopped. Robot control to head off to the preferred cool damp area just flat freaks me out.

[@d2mcg137]

AAAaaaAAhhhHHhh

[@vaels5682]

@@MikeR33D Yea the robot control is very puzzling

[@subliminalhypnopediatrictr8092]

this is why you dont use smartphones before bed

[@jasonwhite2028]

This is something I have been curious about and this video was by far the best in amount of information and understandability I have seen. Thank you for always making such quality content. You sir are the wonderful person!

[@avonacolyte]

Physarum: This isn't even my final form!

[@agodfortheatheistnow]

Exactly read my last post

[@jacobhoover1654]

@@agodfortheatheistnow eat my cloaca

[@SHIRO3301]

@@jacobhoover1654 what if you put slime mould on a human brain👀

[@dravidakumar1697]

remember 'KEVIN' !!!!!!!! LOL.......

[@sahilchourasiya6661]

Calvin want to talk to you.

[@frankowalker4662]

You have to do a follow up on the ISS Slime Mold when the results are in. It is so fascinating.

[@becnalsway]

There was a film a bit like this called Life. It starts really annoying and I almost turned it off but the concept is very interesting about a single spore rom Mars that can replicate into an intelligent larger structure. It's also set on an orbital research lab

[@curtis9160]

Very good film once it gets going

[@infozone9601]

@@curtis9160 Yeah. Didn't the alien end up killing everyone and reaching earth?

[@chri-k]

@@infozone9601 spoilery spoilers. But yes, that was the ending

[@Tore_Lund]

@@infozone9601 Yes, we are waiting for "Life 2"!

[@jgobroho]

That was such a good film

[@Microplancakes]

I love this, Anton!! How amazingly incredible! How wonderfully eye opening for so many!! I’ve, for a very long time, been frustrated that science seemed to believe life had to be so similar to life on earth. Why? Where’s the imagination? Thanks Anton!!

[@ruleram1]

I'm blown away by this one. Good work Anton

[@MoBahar687]

You have not once dissapointed me with your vids. There always so informative and mind blowing!

[@sssssnake222]

I like the one where they put the stimulating materials in different places, simulating big city centers to see how the slime mold would build a highway between them. They matched.

[@MartiensBezuidenhout]

They did not match but they did look similar enough to come to this conclusion.

[@benbooth2783]

This is an example of how graph theory and networks are fundamental in explaining out universe. Computer networks, roads, mould, nervous systems, filament structure of universe for example.

[@sssssnake222]

@@MartiensBezuidenhout correct

[@fakiirification]

good to know that humanity is at least as smart as some slime.

[@sssssnake222]

@@fakiirification Even without a mind, life uses very sophisticated technology. Far beyond our own.

[@tumblebugspace]

Your enthusiasm for and wonder at Nature is *positively infectious,* Mr. Petrov! It’s *consciousness!* Thanks for posting.

[@drawgam2946]

Yeah we basically have the same atoms that behave in the same way, our brain does like ours does therefore we call it a brain but what if a brain can be another kind of organ or tissue that just works differently than ours?

[@drawgam2946]

I hope i'm making sense:p

[@tumblebugspace]

@@drawgam2946 Materialism states that consciousness is just a byproduct of neuronal activity, but that doesn’t seem to be a scientifically valid idea, at least not anymore!

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

Absolutely great information - you are an excellent communicator! These organisms have fascinated me for a long time and it seems they just keep on astonishing us. I'm also about to acquire my very own Physarum polycephalum - very much looking forward to that!

[@antonioflores7123]

Anton, mi tocallo, spasiva! (The middle words is spanish indicating that we both share the same first name.) Wow you have totally surpassed all other subjects in previous videos. I am completely gassed! You had me on the very edge of my pc screen's chair! Dos Vedanya.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

Glad you did a video on Slime Mold👍 It has fascinated me for years. (Collective intelligent of all types. Fungi, ants, bees- group behavior. Slime mold may be a Rosetta Stone.)

[@phaedrussocrates7636]

Well, thumbnail sugests its flying its own space ship, so I'm HYPED!!!😁😎🍻

[@blabo6427]

LOL 🤣🤣

[@ekkehard8]

Amazing. I'm rooting for the alternate intelligence

[@kaminachos5129]

I mean controlling a robot isn't that far off!

[@ekkehard8]

@@kaminachos5129 Promptly discovers slime mould paradise planet

[@phaedrussocrates7636]

@@kaminachos5129 hahaha, you're right👍 it starts with baby steps...

[@squelchstuff]

Fascinating! I suspect the space station experiments in microgravity will end up as a manifestation of his Noodlyness the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[@ooffoo5130]

Ah yes, the god himself.

[@tauceti8341]

All praise the great noodle!

[@elliottprats1910]

It’s nice to meet fellow pastafarians

[@ooffoo5130]

Please don your pasta colander headgear in reverence of his noodliness.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Ramen

[@superchuck3259]

I had a pet slime mold in high school. It lived in a drawer in the science class. I would talk to it. I could just feel it wanting my orange peel. So I would put it in the drawer above it. Then the next day it would move into that drawer and eat the peel. It was a cool animal. It kept to the drawers and enjoyed regular feeding.

[@deviousxen]

The second you started being passionate about this form of life, I knew you'd say it was the most interesting or fascinating... And I smiled. The passion is refreshing. Cool.

[@jpmchausse]

Fascinating. So many possible implications. Love these types of studies. Thanks for the video!

[@vincentclark5739]

I can’t wait to see the zero-g structures!

[@alistairwatt8767]

this will be interesting

[@thefirstsin]

Ayy poggers

[@distantcoff7391]

@Vincent Clark How long can't you wait? What's going to be the result of you not being able to wait? Vini r U there? Oh no vini's succumb to impatience. 😔🙁☹️

[@AZOffRoadster]

We call it, 'The Cosmic Web'.

[@distantcoff7391]

@@AZOffRoadster we? Did you spell "we" correctly? Or should it be smelt "wee"? And if you claim it's "we" define this "group (we)" and do include all the "beliefs" no matter how thought 🙄 provoking or mind 🤔 bending or how 🤯 blowing Sincerely, Justin Clueditall.

[@bASICMiner]

Anton, I really think that you provide some of the best science based content on you tube! Really fascinating and very well presented. Thanks! :)

[@spencercunningham4327]

I’ve never before heard this explained. It totally blows my mind!!! Fascinating!!! Thank you! 🧐🤯🤓🤩😎

[@LordZordid]

That's funny. I just studied this in great detail and now Anton makes a video about it. I am truly blessed. :)

[@hoarder66]

"I'm not gonna spoil that movie" Lmao something tells me that anyone who wanted to watch the blob, already has

[@dieterhase2553]

what makes you come to that assumption?

[@ChayComas]

I'll second that assumption

[@LSOK38]

@@dieterhase2553 Because the movie has been around for over 60yearss!!!

[@nonbinaryDes]

I'm living proof that that's not true 😂 now I want to see it!

[@poposterous236]

I've been meaning to watch The Blob for years and also the apparently incredible 80s remake.

[@KellyBergerDeusVult]

My mind is blown. I'm not surprised, given we are learning so much at such a fast rate.

[@farrier2708]

A slime mold controls a robot? Makes you wonder what our gut microbiome might be controlling. Don'it? [ Edited for typo ]

[@Schwietz83]

Right?? He glossed over it too quick. I need a whole damn video about mold driving robots.

[@hamishfox]

That's actually a really interesting point... How do the microbes that live on and in us influence our thoughts and behaviour? I'm willing to bet it is more significant than a lot of us might assume.

[@cybervigilante]

And after thinking we are the apex of creation, it will turn out we are just bacterial robots.

[@ls200076]

Oh

[@SubduedRadical]

At first I was like "That's terrifying!" Then I was like "Oh, wait, it gains the power of robot and decides 'I'ma just chill over here in this cool, dark spot, aight?'", and that's much less terrifying. :D

[@XRP747E]

Astonishing! Thank you, Anton, that was a brilliant video!

[@zackarywilliamson6861]

Great video! I'm researching Fermi Paradox solutions and this has helped me so much.

[@davidarundel6187]

Seen one, once, on an old tree stump. Bright Yellow - cadmium type - with small insects hovering about it. It moved & had a slight aroma. It was gone, within a week, & hasn't been seen since.

[@Unknown17]

You shouldn’t have smelled it! Now it is moving around insidiously inside you, controlling you, causing you to drive to Circle K for more snacks.

[@stevenhe198911]

DNA is full of memory also, that maybe can explain different species has "evolution memory" from birth, it 's just how that works is still unknown

[@ls200076]

Interesting, you don't need a brain to remember things. I wonder what the limits are.

[@brianhowe201]

@@ls200076 The complexity of instinctual behaviors in animals, particularly birds, and special types of nest-making is amazing. How are these complex behaviors transmitted?

[@dakrontu]

Wow. This organism surely must provide food for thought on the early stages in the development of life, perhaps particularly the step from unicellular to multicellular organisms.

[@Whag09]

I came to the point I can like your videos before even seeing them.... and not being disapointed ! how pleasant Thanks you wonderful person

[@global_nomad.]

thanks for sharing.....great source of knowledge...hope you got some rest over summer

[@DarkMetaOFFICIAL]

So many videos are so alike But this one really breaks the mold 😂

[@TheOtherShoreOutdoors]

WOW! Super interesting stuff. Thanks Anton 🖖

[@TOTiDAU]

Amazing video, Anton. I hope you do a follow up on the mold sent to the ISS.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

If they have to use a flamethrower on a crew member, you'll know why.

[@JOHNCHENSJCA]

Fascinating topic of life and intelligence. I heard that inside cells there are complex networks. Sounds like shortest path problem solving may be some kind of minimum energy process based on sense receptor inputs to the complex network inside the expanding single cell. Thank you, Anton, for presenting in a way that us non-scientists can understand.

[@bauron1985]

Wonderful and Amazing - so glad I depend on Anton for this.

[@LSOK38]

Actually in the 1950 movie "The Blob" only absorbed people not large objects. It also never actually addressed whether it absorbed their clothes,shoes or jewelry but it didn't go around absorbing cars ,tv sets or furniture. Also Burt Bacharach actually wrote the opening theme song,under a different name! Who knows maybe molds came to earth in a meteor like the blob!🛸🛸‼️

[@stevejohnson3357]

That's a relief.

[@Intercaust]

RIP Burt.

[@jubjubfriend64]

I feel like the intelligence exhibited by the mold (like shortest path), could be explained by a set of chemicals and enzymes within the mold which are work together in such a way that they follow some kind of fundamental mathematical model. In terms of its ability to memorize, maybe that's also something to do with the set of chemicals/enzymes having altered concentration gradients which lead to a similar outcome when plugged into the mathematical model again

[@mst4309]

I see intelligence as too much of a humanised term. With what little I know about slime molds, I’d totally not be surprised if they indeed are smart beings. They’re like aliens on earth.

[@twonumber22]

'Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are' is a good book on the subject. You probably knew that already.

[@manoleioan6216]

Pulsation = some sort of consciousness (bio-material, not spiritual) because brain waves (eta, beta, alpha, theta, delta) are named sometimes „levels of consciousness”. I wander if some day in the future we will be able to affirm that the universe has his own intelligence and pulsation consciousness... Thanks!

[@Carpenters_Canvas]

A ton Man U put our more new content than most I see here man , your crushing it man . Awesome dedication bro much respect

[@fernalicious]

I had one of these grow in a fish tank! So cool. Eventually had to drain the tank, wish I hadn't though.

[@lasmujeresnotienenpollAs]

U might have drained ur lil homunculus buddy bro dang

[@fergoka]

You just destroyed a non-human person.

[@garryiglesias4074]

You are guilty of science clues destruction.

[@belstar1128]

We lost a great mind that day.

[@yvonnemiezis8278]

Can they be bluish green☺

[@sanjuansteve]

We are continually shown how much we underestimated the intelligence, empathy, etc of all different life forms, yet we still act surprised every time rather than opening our minds and expectations, lowering our dreams of supremacy...

[@normanpotter5184]

It's cuz a lot people keep forgetting evolution is just throwing shit on a wall and seeing what sticks

[@justindavis2711]

lol, i dont think anyone doesnt expect stuff like this. Every year our minds are blwon and our theories shatterred.

[@normanpotter5184]

@@justindavis2711 well yeah we used to think an election spined but it twists instead we thought black holes were theoretical now we have a picture of one and now we think dark matter is like a ghost but I think it's just the Force of every single ion acting on the fabric of SpaceTime and that the expansion of the universe is just electrobmagnetic force

[@markallinson8350]

In the Science Fiction novel "Clans of the Alphane Moon" author Philip K.Dick has a character called "Lord Running Clam" a telepathic Ganymedean slime mold.

[@varunramanathan8346]

Philip K. Dick is so clever. I just finished watching Man in the High Castle and his creativity is unparalleled.

[@carlchristensen1628]

Great story. I made the same connection while watching this program!

[@fractal_mind562]

The most fascinating video I've seen all year.

[@Bosonfriendly]

Fascinating material. Keep up the good job!

[@punkypinko2965]

Mold appears to be intelligent or ... we actually don't know how to define intelligence. I'll go with the latter. In any case, this was super interesting.

[@KnightspaceORG]

It's not that we don't know how to define intelligence, it's more about not being able to properly categorize some organisms and tweak the definition to fit with observed reality for now.

[@johndenver5029]

I'm loving the plant science content wonderful person

[@neurobits]

This is an extremophile? gosh, I’m connecting dots. Hyper interesting to me. Anton! Do you have any info about infamous “nasa’s tether” ultraviolet video feed showing huge spherical things? maybe some kind of extremophile, I guess. It’ll be great to learn a bit more. Respect!

[@hmvenom]

That would be very cool!!

[@Strype13]

I assume you're talking about STS 75? Those are not "huge spherical things." Those are very small ice crystals out of focus. It has been covered (and replicated) several times, by several different experts.

[@neurobits]

@@Strype13 I’ll love to see the replications. They look huge ‘cos can be seen front and back the tether, changing 3-axis direction. I dunno why every one had exactly the same shape (like a donut with a bit). I understand at atomic level crystals look the same, but not at macro.

[@Rivenburg-xd5yf]

you mean the STEREO video of the sun with globes sipping plasma? Pretty trippy. easy cgi though. looks legit, who knows.

[@rastiga9196]

@@Strype13 Ice crystals passing BEHIND a miles-long tether at the same or larger sizes? I'm gonna call BS on that.

[@caerbannogh869]

I follow uour channel for long time now and i love it. But i must say that for me, this one was really the most incredible and best one yet 🤘 Keep on going bro

[@guatemalaninsanitypepper1322]

It's not just this Slime Mould that has Intelligence. Paul stamets talks of Mushroom Intelligence's quite often too. His research is really easy to understand, but it is also very complex in terms of what humans understand/what we are forced to understand.

[@roamingmillennial2200]

what would happen if you gave it dmt?

[@Milennin]

Cell: "This isn't even my final form."

[@henrytjernlund]

"Doesn't need a brain" reminds me of BOB the blob in the animated Monster vs Aliens.

[@DJRonnieG]

Pretty cool; glad I stuck around to hear you explain the pulsating. At first I thought it was due to the lighting.

[@SS-du7tr]

11:57 "intelligence takes many different forms" I was thinking of how "Slime" intelligence was quite a surprising and unexpected discovery, and still baffles scientists despite having it physically present to study in all manners. I was also thinking about how the cosmic web resembles neurons in the brain🤔

[@UnethicalLogic]

I love it when a video blows my mind in an intelligent way. Anton just did that!!!

[@benthere8051]

Determination of optimum routes between points involves complex math. There's something really interesting at work here.

[@ParedCheese]

So does calculating the flight path of a spinning sphere and the optimum point to interrupt that path. But you can still catch a ball without a calculator. 🤔

[@benthere8051]

@@ParedCheese True, but you miss catching the ball until you know where to intercept the parabola.

[@_Jobe]

Sounds like the beginning of organic computers, with an AI installed. I hope it turns out better than in the movie.

[@jamiemitchell4042]

We are organic computer's with an A.I installed.

[@chipevans8239]

What if we ARE the organic computers,left behind by the ancients?

[@Appletank8]

The brain is a giant grey slime mold all along!

[@camrat3460]

Problem solving and agile slime mold with its own adaptive routing protocol. I like this!

[@SeithonJetter]

What if it's using chemical interaction to store memory and "think" using DNA sequences in the cell ? Has it been sequenced or studied to see if parts of it change ?

[@RandomAmbles]

Generally speaking DNA itself is supposed to be extremely precise in its ability to copy itself *without change*. It's typically more the Expression of the genes, which ones are read, turned on and off, and spooled away, that changes in response to environmental conditions and neighbors' behavior. So in a sense you're right.

[@Sokofeather]

What about epigenetic information in "silent" areas? Makes more sense than useless DNA. But this also implies genetic memory is VERY basic to life, and implies a model of everything from instinct to the Archetypes

[@RandomAmbles]

@@Sokofeather I mean, yeah, epigenetics is essentially the study of gene expression. Heritable changes are a part of it, but much less so. I don't know about *archetypes* though. That's much, much higher level stuff and is only known to occur in, well, us... depending on how loosely you define some instinctual recognition of important environmental things like mothers, predators, and food. I mean, we're the only known species that has abstract symbolic languages and feral children studies suggest that the languages themselves are aquired, not developed independently by instinct.

[@Sokofeather]

If generalized stimulus responses, or uncompressed data pertaining to environmental expectation, remains through DNA, that would be a change from a very low level which would alter a lot of models. The latter example wouldn't be recognized as 'memory' but might work that way. Assume humans experience embodied existence uniquely. But if the data is there, being read by motivational systems, there could be bleedthrough. I'm suggesting this because it explains experienced phenomena, not to conjecture effects abstractly.

[@RandomAmbles]

@@Sokofeather As a matter of fact, this is what evolutionary psychology is all about.

[@iindium49]

Having the ability to actively change ones form at will. Extremely cool

[@pisscvre69]

im jelous tbh

[@ToyokaX]

Sounds a bit like the typhons in Prey🤔💦

[@jimgraham6722]

Thanks Anton, you have put me off truffles.

[@Morsa.B.Alto1]

I may be biased from just reading papers on RNA memory transfer between snails, but maybe it somehow stores information about reactions with the external world through rewriting RNA. Maybe that's just sci-fi though, but a fascinating subject nonetheless.

[@asimian8500]

The science fiction writer, Frank Herbert, anticipated this in 1965 in his book Dune. Through the use of Spice, ancestral memories could be reawakened. There are some papers which state that memory could be passed through DNA and could be the source of phobias like the fear of snakes and spiders.

[@Gilgamesh54]

@@asimian8500 the reason we are prob scared of spiders and stuff is because we grow up with people who hate them, as well as being afraid of the unknown as a kid

[@Drakkose]

In NC ive seen Pink slimes occasionally throughout my life, but the last one ive ever seen was in the drip pan of my window air condition unit. I poked it a few times an left it alone, few hours later it had moved over the drip pan. Next day it was on the brick wall of the house, and the following day i found it and another pink slime on the ground near each other. I don't know if they combined r what, but i had grown up hearing stories from adults about pink slimes that would travel miles to combine with other pink slimes. I've assumed that it was science based but have never found any literature about it. Seen yellow mold like slimes on logs and trees all the time but ive never seen them move like the pink ones.

[@lianawei8711]

Whoa, I can't wait!! I'm anticipating the results!!

[@speakeroftruth1952]

I've always thought we were selling plants short, trees can communicate with each other when they are being attacked or under stress, i believe it's been found plants scream (in a way) when they are being cut down. Maybe plants have a kind of intelligence that isn't anything like ours, and, plants respond to music, I understand they don't like death metal, now that's a sign of intelligence.

[@magichands135]

As a plant, I liked your comment

[@speakeroftruth1952]

@@magichands135 LOL!, this could be really bad news to all those vegans out there.

[@commentingisdangerous7530]

this is so fascinating, it really made my day. i just had to share this one.

[@stevenmcdonald1901]

"It prefers dark damp places". My first thought: You mean like lungs? Lungs in space maybe....

[@mostlynew]

Most interesting subject I have ever encountered. Worthy of a life’s work.

[@zombiedemon1762]

0:44 Yeah I think Slime Mold is way too amazing for this universe. It's the kind of fantastic thing you would only expect from fiction. Like, just how could nature have designed or created this?