The beauty of intelligence

Could it be a fractal, an expensive work of art or something found in the back of a refrigerator?  None of these.  Slime molds are able to select direction, maintain themselves by rejecting what is not beneficial and reshape themselves. They behave as though they have intelligence. 

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