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its in Blogchain now. ;)
Swarm indigenous of mucus
He is one of the oldest forms of life - and intelligence would hardly be ascribed to the slimy little witch. And yet the yellowish Mucus fungus Physarum polycephalum shows the way to complex traffic systems.
Railway networks are designed by engineers to put the localities together as efficiently as possible. For Physarum polycephalum such constructions appear to be a trifle, but they have no higher organs of sight, either over eyes, or over others. The slimy organism construct a corresponding pathway reflexively, scientists report in the current issue of the magazine "Sience".
The Atsushi Tero researchers from Hokkaido University in Japan have reproduced the location of Japanese villages in the Tokyo metropolitan area with oat flakes. On the flock, which stood for Tokyo, they positioned the yellow slug. Soon the astonishing was observed: the yellowish glibber grew in all directions; finally, a network formed between the oat flakes, which corresponded to the railway network of the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Food search is driving the creature to form efficient connections, writes Atsushi Tero. Through the braid, nutrients are distributed throughout the organism.
Physarum polycephalum has often surprised science. The Mucus fungus recognizes the shortest path between two points, as previous experiments have shown. He even finds the best way out of the labyrinths: first, he climbs all the gears. However, researchers left oatmeal at the exit and entrance of the maze, Spectacular: the Mucus fungus retreated from all angles to soon collect itself in a single way - the direct connection between exit and entrance.
Even from a seemingly hopeless situation, his sense of navigation can free him: surrounded by a ring of salt, the Mucus fungus is actually starving to death; Salt is poison for the creature. But after a while of perseverance, the creature takes a twitching track. Finally, she crosses the hurdle.
How the primitive organism does the complex tasks remains unexplained, emphasizes Wolfgang Marwan, system biologist at the University of Magdeburg. At the same time, the abilities of the Mucus fungus could help to develop infrastructure, such as electricity grids or baggage handling systems from airports, says Atsushi Tero.
Robots and artificial intelligence are also supposed to be the model of slugs. The Japanese researchers have been able to describe the navigating of the organism 'mathematically. Now, computers should learn how to navigate using the formulas.
Small sensors are sold to us by Big Brother as unavoidable. These sensors will accompany us in our lives day by day. If the data is put into a swarm intelligence, we will soon be only Marionettes of a larger power. In the future, there will be 2 varieties of people.
The one who tells the machines what they have to do and the other people who hear of the machines what they have to do.