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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run2-c158Brainless cognition in Physarum polycephalum
Slime mold solves mazes, anticipates stimuli, and navigates noxious barriers without any neurons.
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- Physarum slime mold demonstrates learning and decision-making in absence of neurons, including crossing noxious chemical barriers for reward and problem-solving with inert objects.Empirical support for basal cognition hypothesis: cognitive capacities not limited to neural systems; cognition scales from unicellular organisms.