Slime Mould, Cellular intelligence and the Japanese subway system. | Slime Mould, Cellular intelligence and the Japanese subway system. | By Jahidhussainn | There's a slime mold you know called physioium polycephalum
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Inside Japan's most ambitious plan to create the world's most optimized and efficient urban transport system
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Is it true that certain funguses can be used to model the most efficient routes for things like subway systems? I refer specifically to Paul Stamets comments about Physarium polycephalum. - Quora
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Brainless slime mold grows in pattern like Tokyo's subway system | Communicating Science 2017 Section 211
Back in 2010, a team of researchers from Japan and the U.K. fed a slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) with nutrients arranged to imitate the nodes of the Tokyo subway system. Can this
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