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They can adjust from single-celled to multi-celled cooperative organisms and take a lot of forms.
One thing I didn't realize until just looking this up, they can also exhibit some characteristics of other animals including neural systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold#Similarity_to_Neural_Systems
I'm in awe of nature. I'll include the homo-sapiens in this collection, but no reason to raise them above any other organism, including the slime-molds (from whom we may have evolved - thanks grandparents!)
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