Computer made from slime mold

We all know the computer is a machine made of metal and plastic, with the chip core turning the current into digital materials. However, in the next century, computers can become far different than they are now.

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They can be made from nerve cells or cells that contain cells, from parasitic bacteria and pure light. There will be no more computers with the same appearance as in the 21st century.

Does this seem far-fetched and fictional? The answer is yes, but does not mean there is no basis for these things. A computer is just a tool for information manipulation. It is not a task that must be faithful to certain physical forms.

Above all, people are the first computer. Many people do not know that the body has transistors and each transistor carries a piece of information and all are operating in a perfect transistor.

Enlarged image of Physarum mucus

'The great attraction of non-traditional computing is that I can contact the one who cannot contact, connect to the unconnected one,' said Andy Adamatzky, Director of the Center for Non-traditional Computing at the University The West of England school said. He experimented with creating electronic computers from liquid crystals, slime and impact particles. But he is known for his work with Physarum, a slime mold.

Amoeba is a creature that lives in decaying wood layers and leaves, which are low slime. At different times in their lives, they will live as a single-celled organism or part of a snail-like species, which are primary blobs from the fusion of millions of individual cells.

The second animal is found to be a slime mold when they look for food. In this process, they perform the amazing things of navigating and solving complex problems of biological form itself.

Mucus is particularly suitable for finding solutions to complex network problems, such as finding effective designs for highways of Spain and Tokyo rail systems.

Adamatzky and his colleagues can plan to take another leap forward: 'Their Physarum chip will be a biologically shaped computer organized and run by the slime mold' , they wrote as So in your project description.

'A network of primitive pipes will act as a non-linear information converter while co-ordinating points with wires will act as information transmission channels', researchers "Combined with electronic components in a hybrid chip, the Physarum network will quickly improve performance compared to analog and digital circuits," the researcher said.