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

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  • Опубликовано: 29 мар 2010
  • 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...

Комментарии • 192

  • @poppabloodvessel7072
    @poppabloodvessel7072 6 лет назад +575

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

  • @ennuied
    @ennuied 6 лет назад +422

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

    • @RsComl
      @RsComl 5 лет назад +18

      We are the slime still stretching out onwards

    • @GrzegorzusLudi
      @GrzegorzusLudi 4 года назад +1

      It couldn't. It's too dumb.

    • @spiritscoffee6199
      @spiritscoffee6199 4 года назад +20

      @@GrzegorzusLudi so's the government,

    • @GrzegorzusLudi
      @GrzegorzusLudi 4 года назад +1

      ​@@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 года назад +9

      @@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?

  • @LilBurntCrust99
    @LilBurntCrust99 2 месяца назад +3

    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!!!

  • @walrus2561
    @walrus2561 2 года назад +17

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

  • @kellyhoward6941
    @kellyhoward6941 4 года назад +58

    Biology is so damned cool!

    • @WarriorOfTheLostLand
      @WarriorOfTheLostLand Год назад

      Actually its called science

    • @kellyhoward6941
      @kellyhoward6941 Год назад +8

      @@WarriorOfTheLostLand Um, biology is a science.

    • @WarriorOfTheLostLand
      @WarriorOfTheLostLand Год назад +1

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

    • @kellyhoward6941
      @kellyhoward6941 Год назад +5

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

    • @marisolmontoya6123
      @marisolmontoya6123 Год назад

      You waited for two years 😂

  • @Knoxentld
    @Knoxentld 5 лет назад +187

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

    • @rmd9746
      @rmd9746 Год назад +12

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

    • @Knoxentld
      @Knoxentld Год назад +2

      @@rmd9746 🤣😂 word

    • @cream1723
      @cream1723 10 месяцев назад

      protistan*

  • @moxigen
    @moxigen 13 лет назад +22

    nice, maybe a new way to architect

  • @anomalyofanomalies4034
    @anomalyofanomalies4034 6 лет назад +651

    Joe Rogan anybody?

    • @luvsmearer
      @luvsmearer 5 лет назад +4

      Hahahahhaha ... yes definitely !!

    • @chaimrubin4403
      @chaimrubin4403 5 лет назад

      Yeah mushrooms for wild fires moio

    • @chaimrubin4403
      @chaimrubin4403 5 лет назад +1

      Moisture

    • @cycopl
      @cycopl 5 лет назад +8

      No thanks I'm full but thank you.

    • @TubeSpoker
      @TubeSpoker 5 лет назад +1

      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.

  • @Flufux
    @Flufux 12 лет назад +9

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

  • @PMTcommenter
    @PMTcommenter 2 года назад +35

    “Japanese subway modeled after slime mould” fixed your title

  • @ScottTheAngel
    @ScottTheAngel 6 лет назад +125

    I thought straight lines is the most efficient.

    • @watermelon9411
      @watermelon9411 5 лет назад +15

      underrated comment lol

    • @jd2890
      @jd2890 5 лет назад +27

      they will become straight lines if enough time is given.

    • @ericfaulk2204
      @ericfaulk2204 5 лет назад +65

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

    • @mollye
      @mollye 5 лет назад +73

      "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 лет назад +5

      Not if you have to take down mountains

  • @sinopale0606
    @sinopale0606 5 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @sincityfire
    @sincityfire 13 лет назад +4

    amazing.

  • @GavinLomax
    @GavinLomax 12 лет назад +3

    excellent!

  • @MisaTheDog
    @MisaTheDog Год назад +4

    looks like growing fan coral

  • @powerfarmer
    @powerfarmer 3 года назад +2

    fascinating .. TOP BLOB ..

  • @CrashBashL
    @CrashBashL 2 года назад

    Thx Joe

  • @RazsterTW
    @RazsterTW 8 лет назад +18

    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 лет назад +7

      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 лет назад +1

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

  • @mumionebeats2415
    @mumionebeats2415 5 лет назад +2

    After Life: The Strange Science of Decay

  • @pulse4164
    @pulse4164 13 дней назад

    상훈이형 얘기듣고 보러왔습니당😊

  • @RobsRobotChannel
    @RobsRobotChannel 6 лет назад +30

    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 лет назад +9

      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 лет назад +2

      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 лет назад +27

      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 лет назад +2

      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 лет назад

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

  • @MrBlokGuy
    @MrBlokGuy 13 лет назад

    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)

  • @Tahia213
    @Tahia213 Год назад

    Impressive

  • @TubeSpoker
    @TubeSpoker 5 лет назад +3

    Paul Stamets brought me here !

  • @patrickfitzmichael5940
    @patrickfitzmichael5940 Год назад +7

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

    • @kardoxfabricanus7590
      @kardoxfabricanus7590 Год назад +1

      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 4 месяца назад

      @@kardoxfabricanus7590
      Average communist comment

  • @SputerTheHorse
    @SputerTheHorse 6 месяцев назад

    We need to see it do the Interstate System

  • @marcobristol7356
    @marcobristol7356 Год назад +1

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

  • @chocolateex1907
    @chocolateex1907 3 года назад

    Interesting

  • @MusicSoundScienceSpirit
    @MusicSoundScienceSpirit 12 лет назад +1

    collective distributed decision making is a kind of intelligence.

  • @N3bu14Gr4y
    @N3bu14Gr4y 11 лет назад +10

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

  • @themelancholyofgay3543
    @themelancholyofgay3543 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @ok29700
    @ok29700 11 месяцев назад

    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?

  • @3ull
    @3ull 2 года назад

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

  • @sketchmania13
    @sketchmania13 6 лет назад +3

    Video of the slime mould network compared to Tokyo rail network:
    ruclips.net/video/w29Ip3eZ6A4/видео.html

  • @Bamboozled007
    @Bamboozled007 5 лет назад

    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 лет назад

      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 года назад

      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.

  • @eriktoth1137
    @eriktoth1137 10 месяцев назад

    Nah some mold humbled engineers

  • @clutchmaster6000
    @clutchmaster6000 2 года назад

    Mold does DFS 😳

  • @eunickissimo
    @eunickissimo Год назад

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

  • @choxblox
    @choxblox 11 лет назад +1

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

  • @TheFrickshow
    @TheFrickshow Год назад

  • @AgusSupriyanto-46035
    @AgusSupriyanto-46035 Месяц назад +1

    Misalkan hal yang sama diulangi kembali beberapa kali, apakah hasilnya akan tetap sama?

  • @dpr823
    @dpr823 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @joeygouda
    @joeygouda Год назад +1

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

  • @vaultedeel
    @vaultedeel 6 лет назад +7

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

    • @TrevorRGHolt
      @TrevorRGHolt 5 лет назад +3

      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.

  • @cestarianinhabitant5898
    @cestarianinhabitant5898 8 лет назад +4

    How long did this take?

  • @beingsshepherd
    @beingsshepherd 3 года назад

    Yet this video provides no Tokyo map for comparison?

  • @fusion325
    @fusion325 3 года назад

    wow

  • @edga69
    @edga69 6 лет назад +2

    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.

  • @tummyg
    @tummyg 3 года назад

    We are the mold upon planet earth

  • @Tyler-rz1vx
    @Tyler-rz1vx 5 лет назад

    it looks like the tunnels in stranger things

  • @theheatingdoctor
    @theheatingdoctor 5 лет назад +1

    And?

  • @fantasyteamshorts6112
    @fantasyteamshorts6112 Год назад

    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?

  • @PumpkinSpiceCornbread
    @PumpkinSpiceCornbread Год назад +1

    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

  • @pani3610
    @pani3610 6 лет назад

    biswa got me here

  • @vikirafaelova9925
    @vikirafaelova9925 6 лет назад

    Wow 2018

  • @leonardodakimchi
    @leonardodakimchi Год назад

    Who figured out gravity?

  • @alidemirbas3101
    @alidemirbas3101 Год назад

    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 🇯🇵

  • @spazADHD99
    @spazADHD99 Год назад

    les see ai's map ?

  • @dcap09876
    @dcap09876 2 года назад

    But has the slime mold ever tried DMT

  • @dehydrateddoomer1226
    @dehydrateddoomer1226 Год назад +1

    I don't get it

  • @pmdoublet1948
    @pmdoublet1948 Год назад

    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

  • @luukeluketer1024
    @luukeluketer1024 6 лет назад +6

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

  • @michaeljavier870
    @michaeljavier870 6 месяцев назад

    Coincidence? I think not.

  • @obeyobet2952
    @obeyobet2952 2 года назад

    What about terrain?

    • @halt348
      @halt348 Год назад

      1

    • @halt348
      @halt348 Год назад

      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."

  • @burritocat2204
    @burritocat2204 4 года назад

    It looked like my grandma after I beat her Easter day

    • @dcap09876
      @dcap09876 2 года назад

      What?? You beat your grandma

  • @nam1zn
    @nam1zn 5 месяцев назад

    보다 지웅배님 보고 찾으러옴

  • @DraeneiPecs
    @DraeneiPecs Год назад

    cabbage leaf 🥬

  • @Tahia213
    @Tahia213 Год назад

    Tiktok shorts from Joe Rogan

  • @stevematthews6891
    @stevematthews6891 3 года назад

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

  • @abdurhmanmohammed5122
    @abdurhmanmohammed5122 Год назад

    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 .

  • @ezequiasrocha3037
    @ezequiasrocha3037 5 месяцев назад

    Can anyone tell me why this is intelligent?

  • @robbylebotha
    @robbylebotha Год назад

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

  • @ultrakool
    @ultrakool 6 лет назад

    oh no...godzirra!

  • @shepherd7583
    @shepherd7583 6 лет назад +2

    Stranger things anyone? lol, ruined.

  • @CHistrue
    @CHistrue 13 лет назад +3

    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 лет назад +4

      Wouldnt it be a terrestrial intelligence then?

    • @Mithrandir69
      @Mithrandir69 6 лет назад +3

      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.

  • @isaian2e
    @isaian2e 4 года назад

    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 года назад +2

      Its about the connections between the locations.

  • @VrilWaffen
    @VrilWaffen 5 лет назад

    Slime molds are dumb af.

  • @andreapaulite5731
    @andreapaulite5731 6 лет назад

    This is dumb.

  • @RyanT301
    @RyanT301 Год назад

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