This Slime Mold Is Smarter Than Humans | JRE featuring Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets shares with Joe Rogan about how Japanese scientists used slime mold to reorganise the Tokyo Subway System better than human engineers who designed it.

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[EvilCheeseMoon]

“Jamie pull up the video of a bear organizing itself into an efficient Japanese subway system”

[andrewz]

This slime mold now teaches topology at UCLA. Love you professor Slimeberg! Your class was the best!

[sidharthks]

Beard man : there's a slime mold
Joe rogan : 👨‍🦲🙆‍♂️😑😑😲

[cameronbachman]

When joe grabs his head and leans back, you know you brought the heat

[remveel]

Fun fact, Japan has actually been learning most of their creations from observing nature very closely. Fast trains are invented because of a bird biologist that suggested beaks from birds such as kingfisher should be replicated as it creates the least drag and other birds too like the emperor penguin as it’s overall shape of the train.

There’s many more examples of this of using nature as a blueprint for modern engineering.

[Hindenbalio-II]

Jamie pull up that video of a bear fighting a slime mold

[LundinSebastian]

Holy shit, time to re-evaluate that gooey slime in my shower drain!

[outrageousalan]

"Jamie bring up that video of slime mold playing chess with the grizzly bear."
- Rogan

[TzarCowski]

So does lightning or water have cellular intelligence by taking the path of least resistance?

[celuiquipeut]

I love to see Jo trying to process all this. Hahaahaha

[KenobiStark]

Joe rubbing that slime mold on his head off camera

[thegarbagecat]

Or "Jamie, pull up the video of the bear attacking the slime mold"

[warlockmagic]

Joe grabbing his head is me in every class at school.

[MyNameIsSalo]

Call it intelligence if you want but it’s more about moving through the path of least resistance. All the slime that was randomly spread out was wasted body mass as it was moving through a higher resistance area as it did not receive any energy to keep moving in that direction.

It’s the exact same way electricity works. Electricity can randomly spread out in any direction, but it doesn’t, it moves from highest to lowest potential as it’s the path of least resistance. Electricity doesn’t have intelligence. Why do we say a mould does when it’s doing the same thing?

The mould isn’t trying to optimise the network, it’s going through the path of least resistance, which just turns out to be the most optimal because of how we have defined that word.

[moronnucleosus]

Cool how the mold new all the interworkings of Tokyos geological structure.

[SIDAFEK]

"This slime mold is smarter than humans"
Humans design a maze replicating the Japanese subway system and the mold reorganized the subway system in a more efficient design than we have today. Humans had the idea and made the maze. Stupid slime did exactly what we told it to, I'd say that's another win for mankind.

[animtorfiddler]

if you walk through a forest and look up at the canopy of leafy branches, in most forests you will see that the tree branches limit their growth to leave very precise GAPS between and among the individual trees. Presumably there must be powerful survival value to that gap, for the trees to have developed the combination of sensory and metabolic responses to adjust their growth continuously through decades of living in such proximity. They also communicate their health, send biochemical signals among their subsoil root tendrils, communicating information about insect attacks, and some species share moisture and nutrients.

[chellecat]

I'm pretty sure whoever designed the maze shaped like the subway system for the mold to grow in, is the smart one.

[dmitchus]

Sounds like something off of the video game The Last of Us

[grahamshelton]

I love it when science is put to good use.