Tag: Toshiyuki Nakagaki

Bright yellow slime mold branching vein network over dark rotting wood

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 26, 2026

Categorized
Biology, Panpsychism, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Audrey Dussutour, Michael Levin, Oscillators in slime mold, Pamela Lyon, Physarum polycephalum, Samanth Subramanian, Slime mold, Toshiyuki Nakagaki}

Slime Molds and the Growing Controversy Around “Intelligence”

_{How they solve problems with no brain, no nervous system, no conventional sense organs is creating challenges in defining intelligence} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 26, 2026

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Biology, Panpsychism, Philosophy of Mind}

Instead of claiming, like the eliminationist, that neither humans nor slime molds are really intelligent, the panpsychist will claim that they both are — and then minimize the difference between them.

Slime Mold: Memory and Learning Without Neurons

_{Can memories be stored outside the brain? Once we have separated memory and learning from neurons — do the traditional assumptions about them still really apply?} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2025

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Animal mind}

The findings from experiments with polycephalum have been “contentious,” probably because they raise issues about how these traits actually work.