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I'd love to be able to get ahold of you to pick your brain for things like "we know Jerry hates light but do we know if jerry hates certain kinds of surfaces, whether that be certain kinds of plastic or even treated kinds similar to hydrophobic spray treating leather repelling water?" I've been working on a project similar to your doom one and would love to collaborate whenever possible cause science is something that should be shared in my opinion (I just don't enjoy publicity so it's pretty hard to be assertive in that respect)
Jerry is very likely going to be *perfect* to test with video games, but you're going to have to massively slow the video game down to match Jerry's slowness. AND you can use a MUCH larger electrode array since Jerry isn't exactly a liquid that needs containment. I made a direct comment on this video (sorry for the double comment...) hoping you'd catch it.
@@jimburton5592 There's only one cell to infect.. but even so with so many nucleus and internals just made to break down any organic compounds near it... who knows.
@@person8064 Humans don't go around killing monkeys just because life sucks, and something smarter than humans would actually leave them some trees to live in
@@person8064 Pretty sure it's the reverse, where it tortures anyone who didn't help create it, so game theory suggests you should make the torture computer.
@@person8064is the other way it likes the people who help make it but hates the people who’s tried to destroy it so I do not have a positive or negative opinion about it
Just to confirm, is Jerry able to pull old body with him as he moves forward if theres no food left behind? or does he just leave like a shell of himself behind there
I think its a little of both from what I can see. The cell wall gets left behind, probbably as a hint of which way it went before. But the fluid within the cell can be pumped to the wave front of the sime. So the innards that matter for life gets pulled along.
@@Canthus13 Not quite. It seems whatever cell wall was left behind can be reused if necessary... It's like building a tunnel network for your underground survival bunker... While the population moved to a new spot if there is a disaster that happens in the new location everyone can use the old tunnels to escape back to the origin point and try to find a new home... As long as there are no cave-ins of course.
I would also assume the "left behind" parts provide a more efficient return path if the opposite path is blocked, or more likely if it's finished a snack in one direction and some other leaf litter or something fell back where it previously was - I wonder to what extent it can use the previous body "path" as a sensory system and how long that sensing ability persists.
imagine you are doing a maze, but you have the ability to split yourself into multiple clones that stay connected by a thread. as you walk through the maze, at every choice to turn you split yourself and take ALL choices at the same time. each copy of you continues to split at each turn it comes to. eventually one of your copies finds the exit and signals to the rest through the connecting thread. you've just solved the maze is the fastest method possible, called breadth first search. this is how a lot of "smart" animals or slime molds will "solve" a maze. BFS is just a naturally consequence of being able to stretch your body or stay connected to the rest of yourself (or a colony).
slime mold has one advantage though, they probably can track chemical signals from their food that leak through the labyrinth. so they don't necessarily need to search the entire labyrinth, they just have to "smell" the direction of the food.
@@danilooliveira6580 dunno if they can do that from what I've seen in this video. On multiple occasions it stops very short of the food source. Unless it gets in direct contact with it, the slime mold seems to have no idea of its surroundings. It just seems to do a BFS till it hits some food, then starts the BFS again from that point
I tried to explain to my mom how you were growing human neurons and teaching them how to play a video game and she went silent for a solid 30 seconds lol
0:15 The CGI crew that worked on the Venom trilogy used "boneless" organisms, including slime moulds, as a basis for how symbiotes would move outside of their host's body
Justin's got a big green slime-mold he showed him off to all his kin One day, you know, that slime tried roam free So Justin caged him up with a membrane decree Along came Jonah to the old amoeba And said, "I recognise that goo, It's a pseudopodia that's been trained so fine That slime mold eats nutrient soup all the time" Then he connected it to a multi-electrode array To measure the neural signals as they flowed each day He got wind of the green slime mold's name So he thought he'd take himself a closer claim But Jerry was quick and he engulfed him with glee And Justin's cells were digested, oh misery Come on! (I blame you Maciek!)
@@N_Jones always, you know, i'll slime on compost. growing, pulsating, polyyyyy-cephating ~ say it aint so i will not go near a sour oat - agar me home.
@ The creator of the Weeping Angels as a monster of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat! Underappreciated as a showrunner in my opinion, especially for Capaldi's run.
@@pocketsizedweeb hell yea Moffat was great! I wasnt a big fan of Capadli but the Matt Smith era was peak Who for me 😅 Moffett was involved in one of my favorite episodes as well, Amy's Choice
I would like to see Jerry's clone run the maze experiment, see if "he" gets better with repetition and different mazes, then add the clone back into the original Jerry (I'm assuming they will reattach to each other?) and see if original Jerry gains the information of the clone and is able to solve the maze faster.
I don't know if maze solving is specifically something they can improve in, but at the very least I can confirm that a) slime molds can fuse together and b) they can teach each other things when they fuse! For instance, you can teach slime molds to cross a salt bridge (which they are deterred by) to get food, allow that mold to fuse with another, and then have the second mold also be able to cross the salt even though it had no prior experience doing so.
In french the common name for a Jerry is a blob (un blob). I remember making a presentation on blobs in middle school, it was nice making others discover their quirks
@@wiintend07 What song are you talking about? "The internet is not a big truck, it's a series of tubes" is an actual quote from actual US senator Ted Stevens and if there's a funny song about it I'm here for it.
I've always been curious about how giant single celled creatures function, but I haven't come across such a comprehensive explanation. This is perfect!
I love this! I’m in 7th grade and in our school this is EXACTLY what we’re learning. Some were starting to learn but you get what I mean. My science teacher was so happy to show this to the class and she’s always glad to post videos for us 2030 kids to watch. I’ll definitely come to you if I need help with homework
Seeing a diagram of the life cycle of slime molds blew my mind. Seems to completely disregard the cell theory I learned in school. It’d be awesome if you could get Jerry to change forms or reproduce, but I can’t find any resources on how that can be done in a lab.
As a German hearing it being pronounced "ho chest" is just brilliant. Worked a year at Hoechst AG back in the day (now called Sanofi), but will now call it like this when I am asked about it in my CV ;-)
@@fburton8 Yes my be, but the name of the German chemical company contains a "oe" which is a different spelling of the German umlaut Ö. So it is not "her" it is "hö". (for that I have no example in the English language right now.) mabye more like a "HOE CHST"
Hey, it would be really interesting if you could explain slime mold behavior with the same mathematics that are behind large language models, with the mold chasing the odor of the food source along a gradient like this: 1) The slime mold senses the local concentration of odor. Higher concentration indicates proximity to the food source. 2) It calculates the gradient, which tells it which direction to grow to increase the detected odor. 3) The update rule guides the slime mold to move toward higher odor concentration by adjusting its position incrementally based on the gradient. 4) This iterative process continues until the slime mold reaches a local maximum, which corresponds to the highest odor concentration-the food source. These are the equations involved in gradient ascent: Objective Function: J(θ) = - (1 / 2m) * Σ(i=1 to m) [(h_θ(x^(i)) - y^(i))^2] Hypothesis Function: h_θ(x) = θ^T * x Gradient Ascent Update Rule: θ := θ + α * ∂J(θ) / ∂θ Gradient Calculation: ∂J(θ) / ∂θ_j = (1 / m) * Σ(i=1 to m) [(h_θ(x^(i)) - y^(i)) * x_j^(i)]
So I get that training a clump of cells or a slime mold to play a computer game is a thing because computer games have an inherently simple interface and feedback system, but imagine this… teach Jerry to spell out words by using a word processor is read if a video game, and using spell check to give feedback, and then… see what happens. Maybe you’ll find Jerry writing poetry? Also please name your Jerry growing kits “Jerry cans”😅
9:11 As a German it deeply concernes me that Auschwitz survivors warning us that we're heading down the wrong path is overwhelmingly considered a "left" topic.
11:15 question: I see Jerry doesn't connect sweet to salty, does Jerry 'know' his 'right and left arm' are close together (does he have a 'mental map' of everything?) or does he only know once both arms (at sweet and salty) randomly bump into eachother?
@@zackatwood2867 I don't think they were saying it is, hence the quotes around 'know' and 'mental map' implying that they're comparisons. That's just the easiest way to word the question.
Not this specific species, but I saw slime mold in the wild last year, genuinely such a strange thing to stumble across, you think things like lichen or mushrooms can be strange looking, but actually seeing a slime mold in person makes those two look like amateurs!
Fabulous! I first heard about "Jerry" on an Attenborough video, and was fascinated. Thankyou for providing some more detail on their life and capabilities
At 12:45 you experimented starting with three separate pieces of Jerry and they seemlessly merged back into one mega-Jerry, what would happen if the three pieces were from three seperate slimes, like maybe Jerry, Terry and Kerry? Would they still merge, avoid each other or fight over the food source?
I was also wondering this! Are the other instances of this creature actually all the same one (in a way) and therefor able to merge, or are they somehow distinct and able to maintain individuality on contact. I'd be interested to know!
So theoretically, We could find a nutrients that would improve Jerry's mass and then use Jerry to replace damaged muscles and tissues? After finding a way to ensure that Jerry doesn't go on an all You can eat buffet in the body, lol.
15:51 that's like when people ask why their pet does something weird. And sometimes I'm present enough to say "it's some form of cat/dog logic" ... We have our logic. And they have theirs. And there is no reason to think they're the same lol
Like Every cell in our body has a singular programmed job , a cell from a finger cannot grow a thumb, a cell from a liver cannot help regrow a heart .....that cells job is to spread and grow
Slime molds navigate mazes by establishing a dynamic network of protoplasmic tubes, optimizing resource allocation through chemotaxis and internal signaling, and ultimately retracting from less efficient pathways to form the shortest path to a food source. 🤯
jerry could subtly be measuring the strain or tilt of the substrate, and we can attenuate the surface strain signal by increasing the distance on the surface between any 2 points by putting a grid imprint on the surface.
he kinda did floodfill it after the midway snack tho if you want to make a good point for him being smarter than water, he didn't forget the path immediately afterwards
Jerry has to be resource-efficient to survive. It uses molecular intelligence (e.g. detecting nutrient concentration gradients) in controlling its cellular polarity.
I just saw a poster on the wall of somewhere I walked by describing how they made the slime mold about 5 hours ago and now I get a video about it? This is perfect!
so cute naming your pet - when I started my aquarium an underwater slime mold made its way in and stayed there for quite a while - both being a very interesting biological experiment and a nuisance in the aquarium at the same time - but I never got the idea to give it a name.
Hi. It withdraws from regular light pulses - and then anticipates them! Yeah, I know.. how is this encoded?.. retired UK medic here enjoying the ride :)
One thing that I like to think about when trying to understand slime molds is that in a way, they are multicellular. They are technically billions of cells, all sharing the same membrane. Each nucleus is technically an individual, and each one has all the organelles that standard cells have. Not only that, but it technically means that Jerry is not one thing, but actually a massive collective of billions of individuals all working together to survive.
It's remarkable how the "tube" connections form very much like lightning in slow motion. Actually, now that I think about it, the "exploration" method it uses is also similar to a method often used in robotic path motion planning called rapidly exploring random tree (RRT).
Actually, it can. It uses proteins called receptors to detect and react to the presence of chemicals in the environment. The more chemicals there are to detect, the stronger the response. Each receptor protein either releases an enzyme when reacting, or activates other proteins.
re: 15:00ish. It would be interesting to see jerry on a larger dish attempting to connect oats that are laid out like cities in a country/state/province or subway/metro stops. would be interesting to see what routes it creates and how they compare to the roads and rails that they are emulating. I mean yeah that's what the example you gave did, but I think it would be fun to see it on a larger scale.
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I had one in my aquarium. Made a youtube video 🙂
I'd love to be able to get ahold of you to pick your brain for things like "we know Jerry hates light but do we know if jerry hates certain kinds of surfaces, whether that be certain kinds of plastic or even treated kinds similar to hydrophobic spray treating leather repelling water?"
I've been working on a project similar to your doom one and would love to collaborate whenever possible cause science is something that should be shared in my opinion (I just don't enjoy publicity so it's pretty hard to be assertive in that respect)
I've been watching you make videos so long, love the work you do, inspires many. Thank you!
why are you calling my ex girlfriend jerry
Jerry is very likely going to be *perfect* to test with video games, but you're going to have to massively slow the video game down to match Jerry's slowness. AND you can use a MUCH larger electrode array since Jerry isn't exactly a liquid that needs containment.
I made a direct comment on this video (sorry for the double comment...) hoping you'd catch it.
I'm definitely sticking around for the "Jerry becomes a gamer" arc
jerry plays dead space
jerry plays snake
Jerry becomes a racecar driver
Sticking
Jerry plays The Last of Us.
I'd be interested to learn about Jerry's immune system
It's liquid is a solvent. That's digestion and immune system in one. Not really fancy but effective like a vat of acid 😂
@@fischX ah yes, the Alien defense
I'm not finding much about the susceptibility of slime molds to something like a viral infection
Least deranged Seinfeld fan
@@jimburton5592 There's only one cell to infect.. but even so with so many nucleus and internals just made to break down any organic compounds near it... who knows.
Glad to see this channel is always one step further to recreating the Torment Nexus from the hit sci-fi novel "Don't Build The Torment Nexus"
He's almost done with that basilisk
@@arifhossain9751 Basilisk sees existence as a curse, immediately tortures all those who helped create it
@@person8064 Humans don't go around killing monkeys just because life sucks, and something smarter than humans would actually leave them some trees to live in
@@person8064 Pretty sure it's the reverse, where it tortures anyone who didn't help create it, so game theory suggests you should make the torture computer.
@@person8064is the other way it likes the people who help make it but hates the people who’s tried to destroy it so I do not have a positive or negative opinion about it
Is such a comfort to know there's always someone out there working on making a functional torment nexus
Just to confirm, is Jerry able to pull old body with him as he moves forward if theres no food left behind? or does he just leave like a shell of himself behind there
I think its a little of both from what I can see. The cell wall gets left behind, probbably as a hint of which way it went before. But the fluid within the cell can be pumped to the wave front of the sime. So the innards that matter for life gets pulled along.
@@tentative_flora2690 so he leaves a slime trail.
@@Canthus13 Not quite. It seems whatever cell wall was left behind can be reused if necessary... It's like building a tunnel network for your underground survival bunker... While the population moved to a new spot if there is a disaster that happens in the new location everyone can use the old tunnels to escape back to the origin point and try to find a new home... As long as there are no cave-ins of course.
I would also assume the "left behind" parts provide a more efficient return path if the opposite path is blocked, or more likely if it's finished a snack in one direction and some other leaf litter or something fell back where it previously was - I wonder to what extent it can use the previous body "path" as a sensory system and how long that sensing ability persists.
Interesting. I wonder if part of the "bad route" is metabolic waste product that might signal a less than ideal path to the nutrients.
imagine you are doing a maze, but you have the ability to split yourself into multiple clones that stay connected by a thread. as you walk through the maze, at every choice to turn you split yourself and take ALL choices at the same time. each copy of you continues to split at each turn it comes to. eventually one of your copies finds the exit and signals to the rest through the connecting thread. you've just solved the maze is the fastest method possible, called breadth first search. this is how a lot of "smart" animals or slime molds will "solve" a maze. BFS is just a naturally consequence of being able to stretch your body or stay connected to the rest of yourself (or a colony).
Usually you solve a maze by choosing one wall and following it to the end. Jerry can pick _both_ walls at the same time.
Jerry is quantum! 😮
slime mold has one advantage though, they probably can track chemical signals from their food that leak through the labyrinth. so they don't necessarily need to search the entire labyrinth, they just have to "smell" the direction of the food.
This is also a common form of pathfinding used by videogame NPCs.
@@danilooliveira6580 dunno if they can do that from what I've seen in this video. On multiple occasions it stops very short of the food source. Unless it gets in direct contact with it, the slime mold seems to have no idea of its surroundings. It just seems to do a BFS till it hits some food, then starts the BFS again from that point
I tried to explain to my mom how you were growing human neurons and teaching them how to play a video game and she went silent for a solid 30 seconds lol
He doesn't use human neurons I think. It's mainly mice neurons.
The final version should be whit human neurons, rat neurons are cheaper to buy though
I've invented a drinking game. Take a shot every time he says "Jerry". Last survivor wins.
(I actually love the reapeating "Jerry", lol)
tell me when you try this and who wins
What
i did it and will be asleep for a day or two
I just had the same idea but for the word goo
you want a sci-fi horror, cause that's how you get a sci-fi horror
Exactly, I'm 90% sure this thing is what the red weed from WOTW is inspired by
The horror of getting 360 one-tapped on Fortnite by Jerry
Reminds me of The Blob movie.
The Last 5 mins we're basically torturing IT and seeing what Happens
This is literally the Changed furry game 😂😂😂
0:15 The CGI crew that worked on the Venom trilogy used "boneless" organisms, including slime moulds, as a basis for how symbiotes would move outside of their host's body
jerry was a race car slime mold
he crawled that agar fast
he never did leave a spicy oat alone
but ate the sour one last
Well, now I’ve got Primus stuck in my head for another 24 hours … I hope you’re happy!
this is a contender for best comment I've ever seen
He's going for sustenance
He's going for seeds
He's all alone (all alone)
In the only life he'll lead
Justin's got a big green slime-mold
he showed him off to all his kin
One day, you know, that slime tried roam free
So Justin caged him up with a membrane decree
Along came Jonah to the old amoeba
And said, "I recognise that goo,
It's a pseudopodia that's been trained so fine
That slime mold eats nutrient soup all the time"
Then he connected it to a multi-electrode array
To measure the neural signals as they flowed each day
He got wind of the green slime mold's name
So he thought he'd take himself a closer claim
But Jerry was quick and he engulfed him with glee
And Justin's cells were digested, oh misery
Come on!
(I blame you Maciek!)
@@N_Jones always,
you know,
i'll slime on
compost.
growing,
pulsating,
polyyyyy-cephating ~
say it aint so
i will not go
near a sour oat -
agar me home.
contrary to popular belief, fungi only stay in one place when you look at them. this is why blind people are afraid of the woods. they know the truth
Fungi are the real weeping angels
Mushrooms as Weeping Angels sounds like a Moffat story.
@@pocketsizedweeb Moffat?
@ The creator of the Weeping Angels as a monster of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat! Underappreciated as a showrunner in my opinion, especially for Capaldi's run.
@@pocketsizedweeb hell yea Moffat was great! I wasnt a big fan of Capadli but the Matt Smith era was peak Who for me 😅 Moffett was involved in one of my favorite episodes as well, Amy's Choice
"Maybe we can genetically modify Jerry to glow in the dark for a future episode" is such a funny out of context phrase 😂
2:31 TF YOU MEAN YET?
_only a matter of time..._
immortal snail but.... JERRY
Jerry controlled Gundam
-check
* it's just a puddle of slime
-talk
* you say hi
* ...
* it can't talk. yet
:)
My current tutor is one of the men who worked on the Tokyo subway slime mold experiment, his perspective was very interesting.
Awesome, a full video on Jerry!
Jerry the best lab pet ever
I would like to see Jerry's clone run the maze experiment, see if "he" gets better with repetition and different mazes, then add the clone back into the original Jerry (I'm assuming they will reattach to each other?) and see if original Jerry gains the information of the clone and is able to solve the maze faster.
I don't know if maze solving is specifically something they can improve in, but at the very least I can confirm that a) slime molds can fuse together and b) they can teach each other things when they fuse! For instance, you can teach slime molds to cross a salt bridge (which they are deterred by) to get food, allow that mold to fuse with another, and then have the second mold also be able to cross the salt even though it had no prior experience doing so.
In french the common name for a Jerry is a blob (un blob).
I remember making a presentation on blobs in middle school, it was nice making others discover their quirks
if you take a part of jerry, put it somewhere else and it starts growing again... do you have 2 jerrys or one jerry with space inbetween?
And will it seek other Jerry? What does it do when it encounters itself again? So many questions. 😊
Yes
It's a clone so both, it just doesn't seem as melty with plants.
Ship of Jerreseus
There is only one Jerry
2:58 Jerry is not a big truck. Jerry is not something you just dump something on. Jerry is a series of tubes.
Priceless.
I can still hear the song in my head.
@@wiintend07 What song are you talking about? "The internet is not a big truck, it's a series of tubes" is an actual quote from actual US senator Ted Stevens and if there's a funny song about it I'm here for it.
@@ACME_Kineticsthe remix, lol
Hi Jerry.
Oh, hey Jerry.
Wait, we are all Jerry.
Become one of us.
Seems like we found the character from Dead Space series!
There is a nice SyFy book series "We are Legion (We are Bob)" where someone clones himself (or gets cloned can't remember) and colonized planets.
Jerry, like the internet, is a series of tubes
I've always been curious about how giant single celled creatures function, but I haven't come across such a comprehensive explanation. This is perfect!
5:10 STOP HURTING JERRY
Came here to say the exact same thing. Look at how they’ve massacred my boy
16:03 I play video games with living human neurons every day
I love this! I’m in 7th grade and in our school this is EXACTLY what we’re learning. Some were starting to learn but you get what I mean. My science teacher was so happy to show this to the class and she’s always glad to post videos for us 2030 kids to watch. I’ll definitely come to you if I need help with homework
Seeing a diagram of the life cycle of slime molds blew my mind. Seems to completely disregard the cell theory I learned in school. It’d be awesome if you could get Jerry to change forms or reproduce, but I can’t find any resources on how that can be done in a lab.
After many shorts, we finally have a full form video on the fabled slime mold. Thank you Thought Emporium!
my therapist: don't worry, slimestein isn't real, he can't hurt you.
slimestein: 1:25
20:00 Jerry rig you mean
"We've been working on a way to play video games with living human neurons."
You may have been beaten to that one.
*Venom voice:* "I NEED BRAINS EDDIE, ...and Chocolate...."
As a German hearing it being pronounced "ho chest" is just brilliant.
Worked a year at Hoechst AG back in the day (now called Sanofi), but will now call it like this when I am asked about it in my CV ;-)
Her-ch-st, where ‘her’ rhymes with ‘blur’ and the ‘ch’ is soft like a Scottish ‘loch’?
@@fburton8it's ö not er. Try saying eh while rounding your lips like you would for O to pronounce it
@@fburton8 Yes my be, but the name of the German chemical company contains a "oe" which is a different spelling of the German umlaut Ö.
So it is not "her" it is "hö". (for that I have no example in the English language right now.) mabye more like a "HOE CHST"
@@actualgetawaycar That’s exactly how I pronounce ‘her’ - without the r sound! (I’m British.) I wish I knew how to write phonetic notation.
@@Gpcas9 Ah, I assumed it sounded like ö (o with umlaut). Thanks for pointing this out.
Finally been waiting since the short
4:04 nanomachines son 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
Senator Jerry!
Hey, it would be really interesting if you could explain slime mold behavior with the same mathematics that are behind large language models, with the mold chasing the odor of the food source along a gradient like this:
1) The slime mold senses the local concentration of odor. Higher concentration indicates proximity to the food source.
2) It calculates the gradient, which tells it which direction to grow to increase the detected odor.
3) The update rule guides the slime mold to move toward higher odor concentration by adjusting its position incrementally based on the gradient.
4) This iterative process continues until the slime mold reaches a local maximum, which corresponds to the highest odor concentration-the food source.
These are the equations involved in gradient ascent:
Objective Function:
J(θ) = - (1 / 2m) * Σ(i=1 to m) [(h_θ(x^(i)) - y^(i))^2]
Hypothesis Function:
h_θ(x) = θ^T * x
Gradient Ascent Update Rule:
θ := θ + α * ∂J(θ) / ∂θ
Gradient Calculation:
∂J(θ) / ∂θ_j = (1 / m) * Σ(i=1 to m) [(h_θ(x^(i)) - y^(i)) * x_j^(i)]
Man. I can't wait for the JAS -- Jerry Assisted Speedrun. Those will be nuts.
My Mom had colleagues that worked on Blobs, as a kid I found it so mind-blowing that a single-cell organism could do all of that
So I get that training a clump of cells or a slime mold to play a computer game is a thing because computer games have an inherently simple interface and feedback system, but imagine this… teach Jerry to spell out words by using a word processor is read if a video game, and using spell check to give feedback, and then… see what happens. Maybe you’ll find Jerry writing poetry?
Also please name your Jerry growing kits “Jerry cans”😅
Jerry really pushes the definition of single-cell
yeah.. isnt it really a 0-cell organism?
@@Basement-Science how so? It has all the components of a cell.
@@Red_Bastion Because it doesn't have any cells.
@ The whole thing is 1 cell.
@@Red_Bastion Correct, the organism is a cell which contains 0 cells, a 0 cell organism
This was seriously cool! I can’t believe how you manage to make me wanna go down a rabbit hole about whatever topic you present
This is without a doubt the most interesting content this platform has today.
Jerry chasing people down is a highly frightening image
That's a pretty Perfect Cell.
Now enhance the human brain by throwing Jerrys at it.
never thought I'd want a cell as a pet
9:11 As a German it deeply concernes me that Auschwitz survivors warning us that we're heading down the wrong path is overwhelmingly considered a "left" topic.
That's what ya call a Jerry-rigged brain.
Jerry is a chill dude, he just duplicates himself to have a little adventure
11:15 question: I see Jerry doesn't connect sweet to salty, does Jerry 'know' his 'right and left arm' are close together (does he have a 'mental map' of everything?) or does he only know once both arms (at sweet and salty) randomly bump into eachother?
Jerry is probably keeping the arms separate as a way to balance his fluid potential and prevent him from bursting open or shriveling up.
It is not sentient
@@zackatwood2867 says who
@@zackatwood2867 I don't think they were saying it is, hence the quotes around 'know' and 'mental map' implying that they're comparisons. That's just the easiest way to word the question.
Not this specific species, but I saw slime mold in the wild last year, genuinely such a strange thing to stumble across, you think things like lichen or mushrooms can be strange looking, but actually seeing a slime mold in person makes those two look like amateurs!
and fiiinally you talking about it . i've been waiting for you to do this video since forever
Fabulous!
I first heard about "Jerry" on an Attenborough video, and was fascinated. Thankyou for providing some more detail on their life and capabilities
At 12:45 you experimented starting with three separate pieces of Jerry and they seemlessly merged back into one mega-Jerry, what would happen if the three pieces were from three seperate slimes, like maybe Jerry, Terry and Kerry?
Would they still merge, avoid each other or fight over the food source?
I was also wondering this! Are the other instances of this creature actually all the same one (in a way) and therefor able to merge, or are they somehow distinct and able to maintain individuality on contact. I'd be interested to know!
So theoretically, We could find a nutrients that would improve Jerry's mass and then use Jerry to replace damaged muscles and tissues? After finding a way to ensure that Jerry doesn't go on an all You can eat buffet in the body, lol.
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Unrelated but I love ur profile pic!
Jerry inspired my science fair project I did this year on slime mold! Very interesting videos
I always skip sponsor segments but have been so impressed with ground news that i actually allow the segments to run when i see it.
Ever since I learnt about slime molds like...a good few years ago, they've greatly interested me. They're awesome.
2:38
I can't believe you didn't go for: How I learned to stop worrying and love the mold.
As soon as the mitochondria was mentioned, I realized I was tricked into watching a biology lesson!
Test his memory
slime molds are so awesome, had never seen them up close like that!!
Mindustry update looking fire
I'd like to help Jerry explore other parts of the world, so excited to hear about the kit!
Yes!! He did the mitochondria meme 😂🎉
I am so happy I was waiting for a full video. This really intrigues me.
mom! can we get a jerry?
Him:"Your not going to worry about Jerry running you down...Yet."
Me:"What do you mean,YET?"
12:07 I knew it. I was waiting for you to say that you are going to modify jerry
This was extremely fascinating. I’ve always found slime mold very cool
3:52 The inside of our cells are *wild*, man.
It makes sense that something that's so moist dislikes salt. Kind of like a slug. Dries him out most likely.
Its been 10 months since the original short
Truly makes my day when I see a new video from this guy
15:51 that's like when people ask why their pet does something weird. And sometimes I'm present enough to say "it's some form of cat/dog logic" ... We have our logic. And they have theirs. And there is no reason to think they're the same lol
Difference is, its just a cell, we have cells that make our brains
Like Every cell in our body has a singular programmed job , a cell from a finger cannot grow a thumb, a cell from a liver cannot help regrow a heart .....that cells job is to spread and grow
Slime molds navigate mazes by establishing a dynamic network of protoplasmic tubes, optimizing resource allocation through chemotaxis and internal signaling, and ultimately retracting from less efficient pathways to form the shortest path to a food source. 🤯
Man, I love this channel!
"Blob of Jerry" might be one of my new favorite phrases
SLIME MOLD VIDEO LETS GOOOOOOOOO
jerry could subtly be measuring the strain or tilt of the substrate, and we can attenuate the surface strain signal by increasing the distance on the surface between any 2 points by putting a grid imprint on the surface.
3:40 chat, im not going to peep the horror-
Amazing reference
I can't help but imagine the name "Jerry" might have at least in part been inspired by Michael Crichton's novel, Sphere
Remember that water can solve a maze too. It's not necessarily what we think of as thought.
The mold didn't fill the maze, it was very deliberate on the path it chose.
It fills, jerry didn't.
he kinda did floodfill it after the midway snack tho
if you want to make a good point for him being smarter than water, he didn't forget the path immediately afterwards
Jerry has to be resource-efficient to survive. It uses molecular intelligence (e.g. detecting nutrient concentration gradients) in controlling its cellular polarity.
@@mpanganiban Yes you could say that if you just redefine what intelligence means to suit you silly perspective lol.
I just saw a poster on the wall of somewhere I walked by describing how they made the slime mold about 5 hours ago and now I get a video about it? This is perfect!
Jerry, despite not being a fungus is a really fun guy
Feed Jerry a Berry
Yes please
so cute naming your pet - when I started my aquarium an underwater slime mold made its way in and stayed there for quite a while - both being a very interesting biological experiment and a nuisance in the aquarium at the same time - but I never got the idea to give it a name.
real talk, aren't you concerned that your envisioned training method might be tantamount to torturing jerry ?
Don't worry Jerry doesn't have a brain it can't "suffer"
Ethics and this channel don't have a big overlap. Biotech is built on things that make the average person squirm
eating oatmeal while watching this made me feel a strange sense of solidarity with jerry. we are one
does jerry feel pain?
Hi. It withdraws from regular light pulses - and then anticipates them! Yeah, I know.. how is this encoded?.. retired UK medic here enjoying the ride :)
@@tim40gabby25we can't understand what happens in a cell's controller.. what if they're sentient and we don't know it?!
.... don't build the torment nexus?
Probably not 'pain' per se, but Jerry definitely reacts to stimuli and avoids unpleasant ones!
If you boil down the complex feeling we call "pain" to just a bare reflexive response to a harmful stimuli, then yes. Jerry _kinda_ feels pain.
One thing that I like to think about when trying to understand slime molds is that in a way, they are multicellular. They are technically billions of cells, all sharing the same membrane. Each nucleus is technically an individual, and each one has all the organelles that standard cells have. Not only that, but it technically means that Jerry is not one thing, but actually a massive collective of billions of individuals all working together to survive.
I welcome our new Jerry overlord
You have managed to make 200k + viewers emotionally invested in Jerry.
3:20 atp ATP ATP.... Aha aha
It's remarkable how the "tube" connections form very much like lightning in slow motion.
Actually, now that I think about it, the "exploration" method it uses is also similar to a method often used in robotic path motion planning called rapidly exploring random tree (RRT).
It follows the strongest scent of food, which is going to be in the shortest path between where it is and what it wants to eat.
Scent??! It's a single called organism. It can't smell.
jerry knows where the food is because it knows where it isn't?
Actually, it can. It uses proteins called receptors to detect and react to the presence of chemicals in the environment. The more chemicals there are to detect, the stronger the response. Each receptor protein either releases an enzyme when reacting, or activates other proteins.
re: 15:00ish. It would be interesting to see jerry on a larger dish attempting to connect oats that are laid out like cities in a country/state/province or subway/metro stops. would be interesting to see what routes it creates and how they compare to the roads and rails that they are emulating. I mean yeah that's what the example you gave did, but I think it would be fun to see it on a larger scale.