Natures wonders: smart slime (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, June 04, 2014, 11:34 (3576 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Food sensors lead the way to smart solutions of a maze:-http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/944790.stm-As always, thank you for this constant stream of highly educational articles. I found this one particularly interesting because of the following:-QUOTE: "This remarkable process of cellular computation implies that cellular materials can show a primitive intelligence," the team writes in Nature.-Their discovery clearly reinforces the concept of the "intelligent cell", which we have discussed at length as being the basis of evolutionary change ... as opposed to Darwin's random mutations and gradualism.


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