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Slime Molds Spark Debate Over What Counts as Intelligence
Original: Slime Molds and the Growing Science Controversy Around “Intelligence”
Scientists are revisiting slime molds, single-celled organisms that can solve mazes and optimize networks despite having no brain. Their abilities are fueling a growing controversy over how intelligence should be defined, with researchers divided on whether such problem-solving behavior in brainless creatures counts as genuine cognition or something else entirely.
Why now: New attention to slime mold problem-solving is reigniting scientific debate over the definition of intelligence.
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