Scientists Observed A Brainless Blob Thinking And Making Decisions - Motherboard

Becky Ferreria's article is fertile ground to make politician jokes, except the discovery is tremendously fascinating. Slime molds may very well have a brain, just not as we know it, and researchers from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University have unambiguous data demonstrating thought in slime molds. One question, how does The Root-Brain Hypothesis Of Charles And Francis Darwin align with this conclusion? Might they have a higher consciousness, or upper story, like humanity? Often folks access this altered state through entheogens, but Michael Grosso's revelations concerning Getting Into The Upper Story Of Our Minds doesn't require transcendence with chemicals. All of these articles are a heady brew, pun intended, but Will We Soon Be Able To Test Theories Of Consciousness? The theories surrounding consciousness are diverse, and Denyse O'Leary has her work cut out for her illustrating each and how they can, and can't, be tested with science-as-we-know-it. But Can Consciousness Be Explained By Quantum Physics? Well Cristiane de Morais Smith reckons her research takes us a step closer to finding out. (CS)

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