TIL slime molds can pass information to new slime molds despite not having neurons and being single called organisms.

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I think our brains work a lot more like that then anyone admits. I don't buy the claim that all thought happens as a result of the pattern of connections between neurons. Complex thoughts might require the collective effort of many neurons but the building block of thought happen in the individual cells.