A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system
With few exceptions, the AI research community completely overlooks the &quot;rest of the body&quot; when it comes to thinking about intelligent systems and focuses too much on the brain.<p>The amount of computing going on in the peripheral nervous system is staggering - and when you look at HOW and WHERE this computing works with effectors and sensors you realize how much of intelligence is reliant on those systems being there.<p>Brains are interesting - but they actually don&#x27;t do all that much when it comes to the majority of how people interact with the real world, and frankly you don&#x27;t need that much (physical mass of) brain to be intelligent.