Dr. Ben Larson

And so it's learned something specific about the way that you're poking it.

And there are other cells that can solve really complicated geometry problems, you know,

There's this famous ability of this slime mold called Fiserum to find the shortest path to connecting a bunch of different pieces of food.

And so when I look out in the world, I see all this complex decision making that these cells are capable of.

And I think about it on these behavioral timescales.

So it's stuff that you can just directly observe under the microscope.

And so I think people are becoming increasingly interested in this idea, although it's not a new idea at all.

Some of the earliest observations of these protists of microbes were describing these kinds of complex behaviors that I've been talking about.

And so there's actually a long history of people even thinking about cell psychology.

We now know that cells don't have a brain.

They are indeed single cells.

But nevertheless, they have this

rich, diverse repertoire of behaviors and ability to make decisions that help them navigate diverse environments.

And so there's just so much out there to learn.

Yeah, thank you.

This was so much fun.

Yeah, this was very fun.