/lit/ - Literature

>>14851226
Yes, but there's more to it than that initial appraisal.

Slime molds (pictured) exhibit intelligent properties, despite not having brains or any specialized cell structure to speak of. They are merely a mass of protists that will gather together into a single body and dissolve their cell walls. When scattered, they will reform. They are capable of navigating environments, optimizing supply networks, smelling and gravitating towards food, and predicting dangerous environmental conditions. What is little more than a blob of proteins has behavior more advanced than some animals, even with nervous systems. They also exhibit self-sacrifice, as I noted earlier in the thread. They have their own version of a superorganism, even if it is remarkably primitive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVhLJLG7ug