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Sarah flew some water into Petri dishes and added in each some oat flakes while continued the talk:
“Slime molds – they don't like a lot of stuff. So they don't like caffeine. They don't like salt. They don't like the kind of bitter substance called quinine. So we tried to feed it with salt, caffeine, and quinine, and it worked each time perfectly.
With caffeine, for example, you would say, OK,
I'm going to stay here.
Taste – no, I don't like it – I don't like it.
Taste – no, I don't like it.
And so then he'd go super fast.

So this was the first time we demonstrated learning in a unicellular organism by following all the criteria that were presented by neuroscientists.
But we didn't stop there, because slime molds
have something that animals don't have.
They can fuse with each other.
So we're like, OK, can we train another slime mold by fusion?
In total, we trained more than 2,000 slime molds.
We put them together – a naive one and habitated one – and we let them fuse.
You see, a slime mold that has never encountered caffeine before, and straightaway he's habituated to ignore a substance that they don't like – just because he fused with another one that was trained.
You could see that information could go from one to four slime molds, so it was quite an amazing discovery too.
It's not just that they can learn, but they can also teach others.
We discovered how slime molds habituated to salt. It was just because it swallowed the salt.
So we were able to inject, in fact, a memory in the slime mold just by adding the repellent itself.
But we don't know exactly everything about that.
So we're not saying that habitation in a cat is similar to habitation in slime mold.
It's just the behavior is the same, but the mechanism might be different.
It's still interesting to see that cognition is not
restricted to animals.
I often hear the question: What is the use of slime mold?
And I hate when people ask me this question.”


10\01\2021
Tomorrow is the last day…
It hurts. I must refuse some tender feelings. It is like cutting a piece of flesh from myself. I got a very bad habit that was a lovely experience for a while. This year was lovely with you, thanks. I have to change my life, my inner life, again. You will be eagerly missed, Ahmed. I'll never say "my" again as you want.
I don't promise you to delete all photographs, videos, screenshots I did this year because I need them for the next 500 messages. I wish you to reach such a high level of complexity of your spirituality that you'll become Buddha. What a pity it is, I'll never know about your success. Be happy, always..and brave to live the life you dream about Tigran Hamasyan - « Lilac »