The Silence of Slime Mould by Andrew Adamatzky

The Silence of Slime Mould by Andrew Adamatzky

The art works are the outcomes of scientific experiments that aimed to design computing devices made from slime mould. Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a single-cell organism visible by the unaided eye. The slime mould computes by optimising its shape, electrical activity or location in response to stimulations. This fascinating mix of art and science offers an awe-inspiring look at the ways in which slime mould explores its environment and performs computation. Art works allow us to see the world through the eyes of the slime mould and show that the absence of a brain does not exclude an amorphous living creature from intelligence.

Andrew Adamatzky is a Professor in the department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies and Director of the Unconventional Computing Centre, University of the West of England. He has published extensively in theory of computation, cellular automata and mathematical machines, parallel computing, living technologies, organic electronics, and bio-inspired computing. He has authored several books, including Identification of Cellular Automata, Computing in Nonlinear Media, Reaction Diffusion Computers, Dynamics of Crowded Minds, Physarum Machines and edited over 25 collections of chapters. He is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cellular Automata and Journal of Unconventional Computing and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, and Parallel Processing Letters.

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ISBN 13	9781905986422
ISBN 10	1905986424
Title	The Silence of Slime Mould
Author	Andrew Adamatzky
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Luniver Press
Year published	2014-11-02
Number of pages	68
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