Where does the slime live in the wild? Whats the biggest network of slime?

[Ben F Rayfield]

Experiments may be ignoring slime's fully grown "closest thing it has to a brain" which may only happen in large networks of slime, maybe crossing large distances along underground water or in other places Humans dont normally go.

Its known to optimize npcomplete math in its growth patterns, or at least some simpler kinds (I'm uncertain if its finding of planar city transport paths involved enough crossing its own paths). If that were scaled up, in networks of slime with many 3-way branches, it may act smarter. NP Complete is the finite form of Turing Complete. It may learn more than we think, or it may already know some things we dont such as network routing algorithms.

So if it can interact with our computers through electricity fast enough that we can communicate, an important step is probably to hook computers into it in the wild, many places.

The paper about electricity with slime said it sometimes grows away from the electrodes, and for that I suggest putting each electrode in one of its food sources, not in the slime itself, and using as weak a signal as works. Maybe the unexpected electricity made it think part of itself was telling other parts of itself theres no food in that direction or maybe it thought it was going crazy.

If no such huge network of slime exists, it would probably be easy to find a farm with a barn full of cow poop... does the slime eat that? The other plants like it. Wikipedia says it eats bacteria.