Hector Zenil

Slime mould: The fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition.

Biosystems March 2018 Jordi Vallverdu, Oscar Castro, Richard Mayne et al.

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum has been used in developing unconventional computing devices for in which the slime mould played a role of a sensing, actuating, and computing device. These devices treated the slime mould as an active living substrate, yet it is a self-consistent living creature which evolved over millions of years and occupied most parts of the world, but in any case,...