Ferris Jabr
2012 · Nature
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>Will the machine dream? You seem to be mixing up intelligence and consciousness. Not only does intelligence exist outside of humans, and even mammals, but it exists outside of brains and even neurons. For example, slime molds have fascinating problem solving abilities: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11811 It is clear that whatever we are...creating/growing with LLMs, it is very unlike human intelligence, but it is nonetheless some type of intelligence.
Not an expert on fungi, or the kinddom in general, but slime molds have been found to do some amazing things. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11811
Consider the slime molds, which have no brain, specifically Physarum polycephalum and Dictyostelium discoideum (you'll forgive me for conflating them a bit in this brief comment): It can solve mazes. [0] "They remember, anticipate and decide." [0] They practice primitive agriculture: "they carry, seed and prudently harvest their food" (though no cultivation - what dummies!). [1] And here's the kicker: "P. polycephalum ... spends most of its life as a single cell containing millions of nuclei, small sacs of DNA, enzymes and proteins." [0], but "When prey bacteria become scarce, Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae aggregate by the tens of thousands and produce a multicellular…
migratory slug that becomes a fruiting body in which about 20% of cells die to form a sterile stalk. The stalk aids the dispersal of the remaining cells, which differentiate into spores in a spherical structure called the sorus ..." [1] [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11811 [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09668
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