Slime mold form a map of the Tokyo-area railway system

When the researchers place food at cities on the map, the fungus collaborates, spreading out to map many possible configurations and then dying away to highlight the shortest routes between cities and the most efficient overall system map.
For more about the problem-solving power inherent in networks, see "Networked" (May-June 2010).
Via harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/ne...

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  • @poppabloodvessel7072
    @poppabloodvessel70726 жыл бұрын

    Train by day, slime mold by night...... all day

  • @JA-sh5bg

    @JA-sh5bg

    5 жыл бұрын

    PoppaBloodVessel 209

  • @jakeguerrero8169

    @jakeguerrero8169

    4 жыл бұрын

    Joe rogan?

  • @ALiJ4LIFE

    @ALiJ4LIFE

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nate diaz's phrasing can be confusing sometimes.

  • @homewithmarcpodcast

    @homewithmarcpodcast

    Жыл бұрын

    Nick Diaz, not Nathan, said this

  • @aleddave

    @aleddave

    11 ай бұрын

    Incredible comment 👏

  • @ennuied
    @ennuied6 жыл бұрын

    If mold could design a perfect government too.. Oh wait

  • @RsComl

    @RsComl

    5 жыл бұрын

    We are the slime still stretching out onwards

  • @GrzegorzusLudi

    @GrzegorzusLudi

    4 жыл бұрын

    It couldn't. It's too dumb.

  • @spiritscoffee6199

    @spiritscoffee6199

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@GrzegorzusLudi so's the government,

  • @GrzegorzusLudi

    @GrzegorzusLudi

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@spiritscoffee6199 I doubt. xp -I think that even most of mentally disabled people (in sense to iq) are wiser than mold.- Lel, wrong answer. xP In order to be in government you have to get into the power which is kinda hard for less wise people.

  • @spiritscoffee6199

    @spiritscoffee6199

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@GrzegorzusLudi Trump is the president of the United states and you have the gall to tell me that its hard for unwise people to get power?

  • @Knoxentld
    @Knoxentld5 жыл бұрын

    How about New York's Subway System? We definitely need some serious fungi.

  • @rmd9746

    @rmd9746

    Жыл бұрын

    You can start using those that are already present in the subway lol

  • @Knoxentld

    @Knoxentld

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rmd9746 🤣😂 word

  • @cream1723

    @cream1723

    8 ай бұрын

    protistan*

  • @kellyhoward6941
    @kellyhoward69413 жыл бұрын

    Biology is so damned cool!

  • @WarriorOfTheLostLand

    @WarriorOfTheLostLand

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually its called science

  • @kellyhoward6941

    @kellyhoward6941

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WarriorOfTheLostLand Um, biology is a science.

  • @WarriorOfTheLostLand

    @WarriorOfTheLostLand

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kellyhoward6941 oh ho ho so after 2 years you finally show up huh? Guess you couldn’t help yourself

  • @kellyhoward6941

    @kellyhoward6941

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WarriorOfTheLostLand since you didn't comment until 2 days ago, I hardly think it's a "finally show up" situation.

  • @marisolmontoya6123

    @marisolmontoya6123

    11 ай бұрын

    You waited for two years 😂

  • @anomalyofanomalies4034
    @anomalyofanomalies40345 жыл бұрын

    Joe Rogan anybody?

  • @luvsmearer

    @luvsmearer

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hahahahhaha ... yes definitely !!

  • @chaimrubin4403

    @chaimrubin4403

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah mushrooms for wild fires moio

  • @chaimrubin4403

    @chaimrubin4403

    5 жыл бұрын

    Moisture

  • @cycopl

    @cycopl

    5 жыл бұрын

    No thanks I'm full but thank you.

  • @TubeSpoker

    @TubeSpoker

    5 жыл бұрын

    mee too ! had to search for it ... as a seeker in soul, I only believe after I see it . Love to read and share papers.

  • @walrus2561
    @walrus25612 жыл бұрын

    The slime is a better civil engineer and urban planner the the actual people who made the subway

  • @moxigen
    @moxigen13 жыл бұрын

    nice, maybe a new way to architect

  • @ZhePorgi03141
    @ZhePorgi0314119 күн бұрын

    Maybe it is the most efficient map and therefore the slime mold sees it as the most efficient and keeps only those paths.. man biology is so damn cool!!!

  • @ScottTheAngel
    @ScottTheAngel5 жыл бұрын

    I thought straight lines is the most efficient.

  • @watermelon9411

    @watermelon9411

    5 жыл бұрын

    underrated comment lol

  • @jd2890

    @jd2890

    5 жыл бұрын

    they will become straight lines if enough time is given.

  • @ericfaulk2204

    @ericfaulk2204

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not for searching a space, only if you already know your target location.

  • @mollye

    @mollye

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Atsushi Tero of Hokkaido University grew Physarum in a flat wet dish, placing the mold in a central position representing Tokyo and oat flakes surrounding it corresponding to the locations of other major cities in the Greater Tokyo Area. As Physarum avoids bright light, light was used to simulate mountains, water and other obstacles in the dish. The mold first densely filled the space with plasmodia, and then thinned the network to focus on efficiently connected branches. The network strikingly resembled Tokyo's rail system"

  • @juliocervantes4994

    @juliocervantes4994

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not if you have to take down mountains

  • @Flufux
    @Flufux11 жыл бұрын

    the molds that scavenge on old food, and slime molds(that we see here) are two very different kinds of organisms

  • @SEBithehiper945

    @SEBithehiper945

    Жыл бұрын

    well they eat food

  • @Flufux

    @Flufux

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SEBithehiper945 So do you and I.

  • @SEBithehiper945

    @SEBithehiper945

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Flufux That’s my literal point!

  • @PMTcommenter
    @PMTcommenter Жыл бұрын

    “Japanese subway modeled after slime mould” fixed your title

  • @MisaTheDog
    @MisaTheDog Жыл бұрын

    looks like growing fan coral

  • @sincityfire
    @sincityfire13 жыл бұрын

    amazing.

  • @GavinLomax
    @GavinLomax12 жыл бұрын

    excellent!

  • @MrBlokGuy
    @MrBlokGuy13 жыл бұрын

    slime mold such as P. Polycephalum can also be classified under the Kingdom Ameobazoa as proposed by The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists (J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 52(5), 2005 pp. 399-451)

  • @ok29700
    @ok297009 ай бұрын

    Assumptions: every point has equal value? excludes the value of other transport like air? Peak / off peak times? (maybe can be changed by factor like x2 for peak) what else?

  • @powerfarmer
    @powerfarmer3 жыл бұрын

    fascinating .. TOP BLOB ..

  • @patrickfitzmichael5940
    @patrickfitzmichael5940 Жыл бұрын

    The US just lets 3rd graders design the parking lots. Of course the slime mold could do a better job.

  • @kardoxfabricanus7590

    @kardoxfabricanus7590

    Жыл бұрын

    the slime mold would do infinitely better cause it wouldn't design parking lots in fact it would only have train and tram systems cause cars fucking suck (exceptions for disabled ofc)

  • @user-gw8it3su2n

    @user-gw8it3su2n

    2 ай бұрын

    @@kardoxfabricanus7590 Average communist comment

  • @RazsterTW
    @RazsterTW8 жыл бұрын

    This is what the Human race is like once we start space exploration. We're here to spread life throughout the universe. We're Mold people!!!

  • @MrDanno2

    @MrDanno2

    7 жыл бұрын

    No we are space Orcs.think about it. we are hard to kill with out a "killing blow", we breed fairly quickly considering what we can do and finally we have a will to expand and conquer

  • @JarthenGreenmeadow

    @JarthenGreenmeadow

    6 жыл бұрын

    duuude for sure Americans are the literal embodiment of DAKKA-DAKKA MOAR GUNZ!

  • @CrashBashL
    @CrashBashL2 жыл бұрын

    Thx Joe

  • @mumionebeats2415
    @mumionebeats24155 жыл бұрын

    After Life: The Strange Science of Decay

  • @RobsRobotChannel
    @RobsRobotChannel6 жыл бұрын

    Why does the mold strengthen pathways for sending nutrients back to the "core". Does fungus have a centralized stomach the nutrients need to reach?

  • @Staymare

    @Staymare

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm no expert, but I'd imagine the nutrients can be digested throughout the body, it's just sending some nutrients back to the center so that it can begin reproducing. Whether it's a seed or a spore, it'd probably need a fair amount of energy to develop the beginnings of it's offspring.

  • @RobsRobotChannel

    @RobsRobotChannel

    6 жыл бұрын

    It makes no sense to me, because it said in the video that every fungus cell was self-sufficient, identical to the neighboring cell. So then why would there be a need to cooperate in the storage or processing of food, like ants do? Ants have a queen and they have larvae, but why would a fungus have a special mass, does it have a stomach?

  • @kylehenline3245

    @kylehenline3245

    6 жыл бұрын

    The central mass isn't really special, it's just larger because that is where the spores where first inoculated. When slime mold goes looking for food all the individual cells actually merge together. The whole tendril network is just cytoplasm with a bunch of nuclei floating in it with no cell membranes dividing them. The cytoplasm is pretty much flowing around through the whole network to distribute nutrients. I guess the advantage is slime mold in this plasmoid state actually moves the fastest of any micro-organism we know of, and the end goal is to distribute energy to as many nuclii as possible for the fruiting stage. When the food runs out the nuclii reform into individual cells and become fruiting bodies to release spores to re-produce. IDK it's all very weird, But at this stage in the life cycle it can really be thought of as a single organism for all intents and purposes.

  • @SkuvoRucak

    @SkuvoRucak

    6 жыл бұрын

    so it can spread out and become a larger organism, instead of being many smaller. having longer arms means you can reach further out

  • @mikemcinnis12

    @mikemcinnis12

    5 жыл бұрын

    Simply because that is the point of origin, those pathways have had the most time to develop.

  • @sketchmania13
    @sketchmania136 жыл бұрын

    Video of the slime mould network compared to Tokyo rail network: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWZtq9Jslb2ccZc.html

  • @SputerTheHorse
    @SputerTheHorse4 ай бұрын

    We need to see it do the Interstate System

  • @TubeSpoker
    @TubeSpoker5 жыл бұрын

    Paul Stamets brought me here !

  • @marcobristol7356
    @marcobristol7356 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder what evolution of this slime millions or billions of years from now.

  • @themelancholyofgay3543
    @themelancholyofgay35439 ай бұрын

    could've added mountains and things, but they can dig and build bridges...

  • @sinopale0606
    @sinopale06063 ай бұрын

    the video's description says "fungus" but its not actually, its closer to an amoeba

  • @N3bu14Gr4y
    @N3bu14Gr4y11 жыл бұрын

    Politically Correct Slime says you can be colored yellow and still be efficient in traffic! Oh, and so does the slime mold.

  • @eriktoth1137
    @eriktoth11378 ай бұрын

    Nah some mold humbled engineers

  • @choxblox
    @choxblox11 жыл бұрын

    Not plants, animals or fungii, slime molds, next to man, are one of the strangest creatures in nature. See KZread video "Slime molds and other strange creatures, Simplified".

  • @Tahia213
    @Tahia213 Жыл бұрын

    Impressive

  • @3ull
    @3ull2 жыл бұрын

    Curious, what were the results of the consecutive experiments, did the map look the same?

  • @MusicSoundScienceSpirit
    @MusicSoundScienceSpirit12 жыл бұрын

    collective distributed decision making is a kind of intelligence.

  • @Bamboozled007
    @Bamboozled0075 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to see it happen multiple times to see if the fungus creates a consistent formation...if so then it proves its not random, but logic.

  • @TrevorRGHolt

    @TrevorRGHolt

    5 жыл бұрын

    it would because it runs on chemotaxis... also yes we do this in class its the same way every time with the exception of small curves here and there but the routes are the same. chemotaxis is just the cells ability to detect a food through chemicals and move toward or away ( if its bad chemicals that may harm or kill it) its not intelligent is just receptors that cause and action. free of thought.

  • @thinginground5179

    @thinginground5179

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's many other instances of mazes being used. The slime mold completely avoids the dead ends, and finds the shortest route to the food.

  • @chocolateex1907
    @chocolateex19073 жыл бұрын

    Interesting

  • @PumpkinSpiceCornbread
    @PumpkinSpiceCornbread11 ай бұрын

    This annoys me so much. The mold is randomly growing in all directions then dying off where its not getting nutrients. Nothing even remotely resembling intelligence

  • @beingsshepherd
    @beingsshepherd3 жыл бұрын

    Yet this video provides no Tokyo map for comparison?

  • @cestarianinhabitant5898
    @cestarianinhabitant58988 жыл бұрын

    How long did this take?

  • @pedro1492

    @pedro1492

    7 жыл бұрын

    if memory serves, slime mold moves 1 cm per hour

  • @cestarianinhabitant5898

    @cestarianinhabitant5898

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jazoray That's not so bad.

  • @nesskafaen

    @nesskafaen

    6 жыл бұрын

    28 hours

  • @dpr823
    @dpr8236 ай бұрын

    I don't get it. Wouldn't the most efficient path be a straight line to each piece of food?

  • @clutchmaster6000
    @clutchmaster60002 жыл бұрын

    Mold does DFS 😳

  • @vaultedeel
    @vaultedeel6 жыл бұрын

    Fungi are easily older than the formation of the earth which appears to be conscious & intelligent. #PaulStamets

  • @TrevorRGHolt

    @TrevorRGHolt

    5 жыл бұрын

    except this is not a fungi its a protist... lol fungi like but still a protist. and it is not conscious or intelligent. its runs off chemo taxis. so it moves to concentrated chemicals of nutrition. where it can not get to a food source fast enough it dies out and where it can get to a food source faster it grows bigger because of chemo taxis a basic function of any protist the only difference is that it can spread out as it stays in one spot.

  • @TheFrickshow
    @TheFrickshow Жыл бұрын

  • @leonardodakimchi
    @leonardodakimchi Жыл бұрын

    Who figured out gravity?

  • @tummyg
    @tummyg3 жыл бұрын

    We are the mold upon planet earth

  • @joeygouda
    @joeygouda Жыл бұрын

    Uhhh... Imagine what that can do to you upon making entrance into ppl 👀🥺

  • @zyzzsdisciple4956

    @zyzzsdisciple4956

    Жыл бұрын

    bro

  • @christophernieto4648

    @christophernieto4648

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you think like that when you're about to have sex?

  • @eunickissimo
    @eunickissimo Жыл бұрын

    Como pode um vídeo em formato de shorts há 12 anos sendo que esse formato só foi disponibilizado no KZread durante a pandemia.

  • @music123music9

    @music123music9

    Жыл бұрын

    Gave a patch while introducing shorts

  • @theheatingdoctor
    @theheatingdoctor5 жыл бұрын

    And?

  • @edga69
    @edga696 жыл бұрын

    The subway system might not have been able to make the most efficient journies due to planning permission. The mould could possibly send back low-level electric or chemical signals through all routes taken to the last food source. The ones that make it through in the most energy efficient way would have the strongest signal, which are the only ones reinforced.

  • @Tyler-rz1vx
    @Tyler-rz1vx5 жыл бұрын

    it looks like the tunnels in stranger things

  • @fantasyteamshorts6112
    @fantasyteamshorts6112 Жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one who does not understand how it helped? They might have already have a map and just wanted to connect the points, and where is the start and the ends?

  • @dcap09876
    @dcap098762 жыл бұрын

    But has the slime mold ever tried DMT

  • @dehydrateddoomer1226
    @dehydrateddoomer122611 ай бұрын

    I don't get it

  • @spazADHD99
    @spazADHD99 Жыл бұрын

    les see ai's map ?

  • @alidemirbas3101
    @alidemirbas3101 Жыл бұрын

    This could be the external mind’s powers magnetic effects. Some kind of withdrawal. We see a human face shapes. Our face muscles begin reflecting the shape. We see views, it happens on a juicy human s watery structure . Ona A sensor. May be a reflection of a view on water. 🇹🇷i ❤ u 🇯🇵

  • @fusion325
    @fusion3253 жыл бұрын

    wow

  • @pmdoublet1948
    @pmdoublet1948 Жыл бұрын

    They say this was super smart and stuff but this is impractical in reality right? I mean it disregards all natural terrain, private property and housing

  • @obeyobet2952
    @obeyobet2952 Жыл бұрын

    What about terrain?

  • @halt348

    @halt348

    Жыл бұрын

    1

  • @halt348

    @halt348

    Жыл бұрын

    I am pretty sure they did do terrain, there is a lot more info on it if you look up a vid called "this slime mold could replace your brain."

  • @vikirafaelova9925
    @vikirafaelova99256 жыл бұрын

    Wow 2018

  • @michaeljavier870
    @michaeljavier8704 ай бұрын

    Coincidence? I think not.

  • @pani3610
    @pani36105 жыл бұрын

    biswa got me here

  • @nikilasecondaryemail5812

    @nikilasecondaryemail5812

    3 жыл бұрын

    how & where does he mention this?

  • @burritocat2204
    @burritocat22043 жыл бұрын

    It looked like my grandma after I beat her Easter day

  • @dcap09876

    @dcap09876

    2 жыл бұрын

    What?? You beat your grandma

  • @DraeneiPecs
    @DraeneiPecs Жыл бұрын

    cabbage leaf 🥬

  • @abdurhmanmohammed5122
    @abdurhmanmohammed5122 Жыл бұрын

    أأدعوا الله أأدعوا الرحمن أأشكر الله أأشكر الرحمن الرحيم العزيز الحكيم ربنا الله رب العالمين الحميد المجيد ( فلله الحمد رب السماوات ورب الأرض رب العالمين ، وله الكبرياء فى السماوات والأرض وهو العزيز الحكيم ) ( تبارك اسم ربك ذى الجلال والإكرام ) ( تبارك الذى بيده الملك وهو على كل شىء قدير ) ( فسبحان الذى بيده ملكوت كل شىء وإليه ترجعون ) ( هل جزاء الإحسان إلا الإحسان ، فبأى الاء ربكما تكذبان ) ( أإله مع الله ) لا إله إلا الله .

  • @sanchitadutta7826

    @sanchitadutta7826

    10 ай бұрын

    Shut up

  • @nam1zn
    @nam1zn3 ай бұрын

    보다 지웅배님 보고 찾으러옴

  • @luukeluketer1024
    @luukeluketer10246 жыл бұрын

    Joe 'blady' Rogan brought me here.......

  • @stevematthews6891
    @stevematthews68913 жыл бұрын

    it's NOT a fungus! Bad science journalism again. I'm surprised Harvard magazine would let something so wrong slipped through...

  • @ezequiasrocha3037
    @ezequiasrocha30373 ай бұрын

    Can anyone tell me why this is intelligent?

  • @Tahia213
    @Tahia213 Жыл бұрын

    Tiktok shorts from Joe Rogan

  • @robbylebotha
    @robbylebotha Жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one who doesn't see the big deal here?

  • @ultrakool
    @ultrakool6 жыл бұрын

    oh no...godzirra!

  • @isaian2e
    @isaian2e4 жыл бұрын

    If the food is placed in the exact places to force the mold to create the map, it's not creating the map.

  • @cherubin7th

    @cherubin7th

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its about the connections between the locations.

  • @shepherd7583
    @shepherd75836 жыл бұрын

    Stranger things anyone? lol, ruined.

  • @CHistrue
    @CHistrue13 жыл бұрын

    Two thoughts. One is that we definitely do not live in a mechanistic Universe. Sorry to all of the reductionists out there, but we do not so deal with it. The other is that we might be dealing with an alien intelligence---right here on Earth! Further testing is required to test that hypothesis. Hey Harvard, have you tried actual communication?

  • @JarthenGreenmeadow

    @JarthenGreenmeadow

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wouldnt it be a terrestrial intelligence then?

  • @Mithrandir69

    @Mithrandir69

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jarthen Greenmeadow Exactly. Not sure how 'alien' can be derived from observing a life form that been on Earth longer than almost every other form of life.

  • @TotalMobilizationOfLifeForce
    @TotalMobilizationOfLifeForce5 жыл бұрын

    Slime molds are dumb af.

  • @andreapaulite5731
    @andreapaulite57315 жыл бұрын

    This is dumb.

  • @RyanT301
    @RyanT30110 ай бұрын

    That’s not intelligence it’s all spreading bout evenly