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Biology of the Physarum polycephalum Plasmodium: Preliminaries for Unconventional Computing Read chapter Read first chapter

2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

On Creativity of Slime Mould

Authors : Andrew Adamatzky, Rachel Armstrong, Jeff Jones, Yukio Gunji

Published in: Advances in Physarum Machines

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is large single cell with intriguingly smart behaviour. The slime mould shows outstanding abilities to adapt its protoplasmic network to varying environmental conditions. The slime mould can solve tasks of computational geometry, image processing, logics and arithmetics when data are represented by configurations of attractants and repellents. We attempt to map behavioural patterns of slime onto the cognitive control versus schizotypy spectrum phase space and thus interpret slime mould’s activity in terms of creativity.

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previous chapter Bodymetries. A Generative Projection Environment for Slime Mould and Humans
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‘Actant’ is Bruno Latour’s term for a source of action; an actant can be human or not, or, most likely, a combination of both. It implies no special motivation of human individual actors, nor of humans in general [8, 30].
 
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A schizotypy is a range of personality characteristics ranging from normal to schizophrenia.
 
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Metadata
Title
On Creativity of Slime Mould
Authors
Andrew Adamatzky
Rachel Armstrong
Jeff Jones
Yukio Gunji
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Advances in Physarum Machines

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-26661-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-26662-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_38

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