How a Slime Mold designed the Tokyo Railway System

Imagine if a single-celled organism, single handedly, designed the Tokyo Metro System? Well, this actually happened when a group of Japanese researchers at Hokkaido University put a slime mold on a map of Tokyo, to see how it would connect between urban hotspots..

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[hayond]

I watched a slime solve a mazevideo and people started talking about it rearranging Tokyo stations so now I'm here

[raphaelhebert]

There is no short route out of IKEA...

[phincampbell]

My friend just pointed this out to me. I'm grateful to him for that. New subscriber!

[szabolcsbenedek]

Wow, I honestly didn't expect a 4 minute video to be so informative and entertaining! Keep up the great work!

[KrashFries]

interesting. it seems that the mold network is more centralized and branches out from a center, whereas the actual network has less connectivity in the middle but more of a beltline. which makes sense as slimes don’t need suburbs.

[lyrebird]

The mold didn't design the subway. It made another version of it, which the researchers said was "rather similar" to the actual subway. Not the same. The molds are pretty incredible but your title is misleading.

[Will_Moffett]

If a single celled system can redesign the tokyo metro system then maybe worker control of a company would make the company better for everyone.

[AvatarRiku]

So SCP-3008’s greatest weakness is some mold

[siddharthkale]

Amazing video!! The production quality seems really high !! Will love to see u grow into a big content creator

[spriggina_fan]

sir, you have gotten yourself a new subscriber

[ruiyang]

sorry from the network connection, the 2 webs are quite different.

[desertsurvival]

To think us humans with our very best engineers, , have to compete with a slime mold.

[cacaPoopTrain]

I’m very impressed that the humans actually designed a nearly identical design to the slime.

Hopefully one day humans will be able to think as fast and efficiently as slime.

I also like oats. 😋

[MoebiusGaming]

Who else just came here while watching the Pirate Software stream? :)

[demikatechis]

I was impressed when I first heard about this.
While I don’t think it’s a hoax I do believe it’s highly overrated. The results can only be a certain logical solution.

[Harkness]

Pretty cute this terrifying mold loves oats lol 😂

[summer_serranose]

imagine if they did this to construct a subway system across the whole Philippines...

[natasham]

Getting out of the IKEA showroom at all is the genius level

[brianlamptey]

Tensei shittara slime datta ken no sage da

[davidhorvath]

What an appropriate ancient prophecy tool for deciding where to build the settlements and roads.