Consciousness in Nature
Slime Mold Consciousness-2
How do they act as a community with no brain or leader? They work together better than humans, who have complex brains, and who can't do anything together without a leader to coordinate things. Not only can slime mold work together they can solve problems together.
If one breaks up a slime mold glob and places it in a maze it will spread out and fill all of the available space. But then if food is placed at the two openings, marked by AG, They will move out of all the dead ends and solv
e the maze.
The food will be passed along so all get fed. Their favorite is oat flakes. Not bad for a single cell brainless creature.
I have just scratched the surface with all of the studies that have been done and are being done looking at consciousness in nature. In my mind the answer is clear, we live in a sea of consciousness.