1. Physarum polycephalum Slime mold Mid: slime

2. Many-headed (polycephalum) slime mold Mid: slime

3. polycephalum is a single cell filled with many interacting nuclei Mid: slime

4. all dark

5. Minimal -risk-path task Mid: slime Nakagaki, et al., preprint all dark light dark light dark light dark

6. Mid: slime start

7. Mid: slime few hours later start

8. Shortest-path -through-maze task Mid: slime Nakagaki, et al., NATURE VOL 407 p470 28 SEPTEMBER 2000 NP hard few hours later start“finally”

9. Mid: slime Tero, et al., SCIENCE VOL 327 p439 22 JANUARY 2010 start

10. Tokyo -railway-system task Mid: slime Tero, et al., SCIENCE VOL 327 p439 22 JANUARY 2010 NP hard start end

11. Mid: slime Saigusa, et al., PRL 100, 018101 (2008) time

12. Mid: slime Saigusa, et al., PRL 100, 018101 (2008) time

13. Learns Mid: slime Saigusa, et al., PRL 100, 018101 (2008) time

14. Learns Mid: slime Saigusa, et al., PRL 100, 018101 (2008) time

15. Learns Recalls Mid: slime Saigusa, et al., PRL 100, 018101 (2008) time

16. Learns Recalls Remember -to-stop task Mid: slime Saigusa, et al., PRL 100, 018101 (2008) time

17. FISH Experiment

19. STUCK !

20. FISH Experiment

21. CONSENSUS !

22. Epi Stuck ?

23. Stomata

24. Stomatal Patchiness Mid: leaves

25. Brains make patches, too Mid: nets

26. White? Black? or Easy w CPU, not so easy w/o