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Slime-Mold Math
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about Euplotes eurystomus and how its internal mechanical architecture acts as a state machine to allow this single-celled creature to behave in ways that seem “intelligent.” This week, Michelle Starr at ScienceAlert published a nice little…
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Not So Brownian After All
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There’s a new piece of research in Current Biology regarding the movement of a walking (yes, walking) single cell creature called Euplotes eurystomus which demonstrates pretty convincingly that the cell’s locomotion system is a relatively complex molecular finite-state machine. Its 14 “legs” (cirri) are interconnected…
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