Understanding Physarum polycephalum

[Landon Caeli]

Secret Mind of Slime

Meet slime molds: the brainless blobs that can learn, make decisions, and navigate mazes.

www.pbs.org

I'm trying to wrap my head around the life cycle of this creature. How does it reproduce? and does it die?

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

There's a really good documentary about this. It's called The Last of Us.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Secret Mind of Slime

Meet slime molds: the brainless blobs that can learn, make decisions, and navigate mazes.

www.pbs.org

I'm trying to wrap my head around the life cycle of this creature. How does it reproduce? and does it die?

"It" doesn't appear to be individuals in union with other individuals.

 

[Landon Caeli]

In the PBS documentary, they proved repeatedly that it has the capability to learn and to remember... Which doesn't seem possible for a single-called creature... But has been proven using the scientific method.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Wikipedia has a helpful diagram of the life cycle, but since I'm a physicist and not a biologist, I'm no wiser after perusing this: