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I wonder how much they have evolved from their first appearance on earth?

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I wonder how much they have evolved from their first appearance on earth?

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Slime Molds are a great example of how we know only a little bit.

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Another example of how an organism is competent at another level than the standards we set as humans. 

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Another example of how an organism is competent at another level than the standards we set as humans. 

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"Yet slime molds do not blindly ooze from one place to another--they carefully explore their environments, seeking the most efficient routes between resources."

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capable of solving more complex spatial problems

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"[...] choose the healthiest food from a diverse menu [...]" How did this study go? Was their a theory as to why it chose the healthiest? What were the other options?

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No touching, smell the grass.

Flowers abound, wilted, blooming.

Bees know where to go.

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The article says, "They remember, anticipate and decide. By doing so much with so little, slime molds represent a successful and admirable alternative to convoluted brain-based intelligence." More experimentation seems to be needed but how can species-centric experimentation take place?

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We, as humans, have an idea of how to judge and categorize others (whether correct or not), but do other organisms (like slime molds) have opinions on humans in their own way?

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Understanding that some food is better than others to reach the nutritional values that it needs

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Yet slime molds do not blindly ooze from one place to another—they carefully explore their environments, seeking the most efficient routes between resources. They do not accept whatever circumstances they find themselves in, but rather choose conditions most amenable to their survival.

Hmmm...similar to Humans

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I see children walk—
past blooms and still stone stories,
bee lies in silence

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Grapes split - water

hint of grapes and earth

vines curling, reaching

like the traffic on Thornhill

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I only hear wheels

Ignore my sense of smell

Trees waving in the breeze