{"id":148389,"date":"2022-10-18T03:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/clockwork-like-computer-discovered-inside-brainless-microscopic-organism"},"modified":"2022-10-18T03:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:22:43","slug":"clockwork-like-computer-discovered-inside-brainless-microscopic-organism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/clockwork-like-computer-discovered-inside-brainless-microscopic-organism","title":{"rendered":"Clockwork-Like \u2018Computer\u2019 Discovered Inside Brainless Microscopic Organism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_-qbj_9dYNA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tiny single-celled critters obviously don\u2019t have room for a brain to tell them how to move in complex ways, so to get about, they usually roll, slither or swim.<\/p>\n<p>But microscopic pond dwellers called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Euplotes\">Euplotes<\/a> eurystomus<\/em> have mastered a way to walk brainlessly \u2013 scurrying about like insects, with their 14 little appendages.<\/p>\n<p>They appear to move a bit like the Dutch-designed kinetic sculptures called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strandbeest.com\/\">Strandbeasts<\/a>, with clockwork-like connections cycling them through a pattern of set states that can be adjusted in response to their environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny single-celled critters obviously don\u2019t have room for a brain to tell them how to move in complex ways, so to get about, they usually roll, slither or swim. But microscopic pond dwellers called Euplotes eurystomus have mastered a way to walk brainlessly \u2013 scurrying about like insects, with their 14 little appendages. They appear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}