On: Slime molds’ complex ability to detect mass from a...

[rthomas6]

Could it be because the three glass disks cause a slope in the agar gel? And the slime mold prefers to grow downhill?

[Darkphibre → rthomas6]

> They found that, even more than the total mass of the objects, the slime mold reacted to how much of the horizon the objects occupied. It repeatedly preferred objects spread along the horizon as opposed to those at a single, stacked point

[123pie123 → rthomas6]

Could the slime grow thin extremely small exploratory network first and then decide how to grow its main body?

[kseistrup → rthomas6]

Or could evaporation happen faster on the one-disk side so that the slime mold prefers to move towards the more humid/moist side?

[richardfey → rthomas6]

I wonder if it has something to do with surface tension