YellowmyxomycetePhysaraceaeUK Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date September 28, 2026 CategoriesHuman ExceptionalismLife SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __featured1, ant swarms, Audrey Dussutour, biology, brain, carbon, cognition, consciousness, cuttlefish, eliminative materialism, eyes, fungi, Hokkaido University, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, jellyfish, limbs, Michael Levin, mouth, nuclei, oat flakes, panpsychism, Physarum polycephalum, plants, protoplasm, Samanth Subramanian, silicon, The Guardian, Tokyo, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, trees Slime Smarts: These Brainless Blobs Are Brighter than You Thought Denyse O’Leary September 28, 2026 Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 7 Some want to claim that slime molds poses a threat to the idea that humans are exceptional. Read More ›