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This article says that they've found that the slime mold's memories are stored in tubes that form intricate networks inside the cell. It's interesting because
by fiftyfifty 6y ago
This article says that they've found that the slime mold's memories are stored in tubes that form intricate networks inside the cell. It's interesting because neurons have lots of microtubules and there have been some recent research showing that they may be more than just structural components of the neuron:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979999/
Could there be a relationship between these slime mold memories and memories in more complex organisms?
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- eternalban 6y agoI recall Roger Penrose catching flack for his microtubules theory of consciousness - looks like I missed his Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory: http://www.consciousentities.com/penrose.htm http://www.consciousentities.com/penrose.htm https://medium.com/awake-alive-mind/roger-penrose-on-the-brain-and-mind-from-the-quantum-scale-to-the-large-scale-f2ecc4cf236a https://medium.com/awake-alive-mind/roger-penrose-on-the-bra... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064513001188 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157106451...
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- imvetri 6y agoStructure is the memory