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Slime Molds Fuel Debate Over What Counts as Intelligence
Original: Slime Molds and the Growing Science Controversy Around “Intelligence”
Single-celled slime molds, which lack brains yet can solve mazes, optimize networks, and learn simple patterns, are at the center of a growing scientific dispute over how intelligence should be defined. Researchers disagree on whether such abilities reflect genuine cognition or simpler biological processes, a question with implications for neuroscience, philosophy, and artificial intelligence.
Why now: New attention to brainless organisms solving complex problems challenges conventional definitions of intelligence.
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