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This book investigated the complex biological and computational behaviour of the true slime mould Physarum Polycephalum. The aim was to answer the question of how a simple single-celled organism, without any supposed requisites for intelligent behaviour, is capable of such complex feats of distributed and emergent computation.
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Jones, J. (2015). Summary of the Approach and Modelling beyond Physarum . In: From Pattern Formation to Material Computation. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16823-4_17
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