My Pet Eldritch Horror, Jerry the Slime
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I had one in my aquarium. Made a youtube video 🙂
I'd love to be able to get ahold of you to pick your brain for things like "we know Jerry hates light but do we know if jerry hates certain kinds of surfaces, whether that be certain kinds of plastic or even treated kinds similar to hydrophobic spray treating leather repelling water?"
I've been working on a project similar to your doom one and would love to collaborate whenever possible cause science is something that should be shared in my opinion (I just don't enjoy publicity so it's pretty hard to be assertive in that respect)
I've been watching you make videos so long, love the work you do, inspires many. Thank you!
why are you calling my ex girlfriend jerry
Jerry is very likely going to be *perfect* to test with video games, but you're going to have to massively slow the video game down to match Jerry's slowness. AND you can use a MUCH larger electrode array since Jerry isn't exactly a liquid that needs containment.
I made a direct comment on this video (sorry for the double comment...) hoping you'd catch it.
I'm definitely sticking around for the "Jerry becomes a gamer" arc
jerry plays dead space
jerry plays snake
Jerry becomes a racecar driver
Sticking
Jerry plays The Last of Us.
eating oatmeal while watching this made me feel a strange sense of solidarity with jerry. we are one
We are jerry.
Life is oat and jerry.
We are jerry.
Aaa yes.
The last of us beginning
Can I have some Oats, brothah
Is such a comfort to know there's always someone out there working on making a functional torment nexus
I mean, I like the reference but I fail to see how this is building the torment nexus at all?
@@Tinil0 I welcome my fate as a Jerry in the torment nexus
@@Tinil0I am out of the loop, I think? Is it A.M?
@@Shadowswolf9666It's just a twitter meme
@@Shadowswolf9666
"Corporations: We have made the torment nexus, from the bestselling fiction novel "Please don't make the torment nexus"!
0:15 The CGI crew that worked on the Venom trilogy used "boneless" organisms, including slime moulds, as a basis for how symbiotes would move outside of their host's body
Glad to see this channel is always one step further to recreating the Torment Nexus from the hit sci-fi novel "Don't Build The Torment Nexus"
He's almost done with that basilisk
@@arifhossain9751 Basilisk sees existence as a curse, immediately tortures all those who helped create it
@@person8064 Humans don't go around killing monkeys just because life sucks, and something smarter than humans would actually leave them some trees to live in
@@person8064 Pretty sure it's the reverse, where it tortures anyone who didn't help create it, so game theory suggests you should make the torture computer.
@@person8064is the other way it likes the people who help make it but hates the people who’s tried to destroy it so I do not have a positive or negative opinion about it
"Maybe we can genetically modify Jerry to glow in the dark for a future episode" is such a funny out of context phrase 😂
I would _love_ me some slime mold lamp!
RGB luminescent gamer Jerry~
@@Gorulabro “It’s so dark in here…”
“Oh yeah! Let me feed the lamp real quick.”
I wonder how else we could genetically modify Jerry. I would love for him to be my venom symbiote
Cross Jerry with a human and you have Prototype
I tried to explain to my mom how you were growing human neurons and teaching them how to play a video game and she went silent for a solid 30 seconds lol
He doesn't use human neurons I think. It's mainly mice neurons.
The final version should be whit human neurons, rat neurons are cheaper to buy though
human and mice neurons are very very similar, thats why mice is preferred, also rats and mice arent the same.
My friend was telling me about it and was trying to explain how it was conscious and everything and I was like "I watch the yt channel of the guy who did it, it's interesting but it's not conscious" and he could not understand that, and wouldn't let me show him
@@smileyp4535All things are conscious. If mathematics came from consciousness then we will never be able to use mathematics to explain consciousness - it is within everything.
My current tutor is one of the men who worked on the Tokyo subway slime mold experiment, his perspective was very interesting.
imagine you are doing a maze, but you have the ability to split yourself into multiple clones that stay connected by a thread. as you walk through the maze, at every choice to turn you split yourself and take ALL choices at the same time. each copy of you continues to split at each turn it comes to. eventually one of your copies finds the exit and signals to the rest through the connecting thread. you've just solved the maze is the fastest method possible, called breadth first search. this is how a lot of "smart" animals or slime molds will "solve" a maze. BFS is just a naturally consequence of being able to stretch your body or stay connected to the rest of yourself (or a colony).
Usually you solve a maze by choosing one wall and following it to the end. Jerry can pick _both_ walls at the same time.
Jerry is quantum! 😮
slime mold has one advantage though, they probably can track chemical signals from their food that leak through the labyrinth. so they don't necessarily need to search the entire labyrinth, they just have to "smell" the direction of the food.
This is also a common form of pathfinding used by videogame NPCs.
@@danilooliveira6580 dunno if they can do that from what I've seen in this video. On multiple occasions it stops very short of the food source. Unless it gets in direct contact with it, the slime mold seems to have no idea of its surroundings. It just seems to do a BFS till it hits some food, then starts the BFS again from that point
It’s crazy how much variety there is on Earth. While we were evolving the ability to walk on land, climb trees, and make smartphones, these little guys have been evolving totally different. Everything alive today is just as evolved as us, I love it.
contrary to popular belief, fungi only stay in one place when you look at them. this is why blind people are afraid of the woods. they know the truth
Fungi are the real weeping angels
Mushrooms as Weeping Angels sounds like a Moffat story.
@@pocketsizedweeb Moffat?
@ The creator of the Weeping Angels as a monster of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat! Underappreciated as a showrunner in my opinion, especially for Capaldi's run.
@@pocketsizedweeb hell yea Moffat was great! I wasnt a big fan of Capadli but the Matt Smith era was peak Who for me 😅 Moffett was involved in one of my favorite episodes as well, Amy's Choice
I would like to see Jerry's clone run the maze experiment, see if "he" gets better with repetition and different mazes, then add the clone back into the original Jerry (I'm assuming they will reattach to each other?) and see if original Jerry gains the information of the clone and is able to solve the maze faster.
I don't know if maze solving is specifically something they can improve in, but at the very least I can confirm that a) slime molds can fuse together and b) they can teach each other things when they fuse! For instance, you can teach slime molds to cross a salt bridge (which they are deterred by) to get food, allow that mold to fuse with another, and then have the second mold also be able to cross the salt even though it had no prior experience doing so.
I'd be interested to learn about Jerry's immune system
It's liquid is a solvent. That's digestion and immune system in one. Not really fancy but effective like a vat of acid 😂
@@fischX ah yes, the Alien defense
I'm not finding much about the susceptibility of slime molds to something like a viral infection
Least deranged Seinfeld fan
@@jimburton5592 There's only one cell to infect.. but even so with so many nucleus and internals just made to break down any organic compounds near it... who knows.
Man. I can't wait for the JAS -- Jerry Assisted Speedrun. Those will be nuts.
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Just to confirm, is Jerry able to pull old body with him as he moves forward if theres no food left behind? or does he just leave like a shell of himself behind there
I think its a little of both from what I can see. The cell wall gets left behind, probbably as a hint of which way it went before. But the fluid within the cell can be pumped to the wave front of the sime. So the innards that matter for life gets pulled along.
@@tentative_flora2690 so he leaves a slime trail.
@@Canthus13 Not quite. It seems whatever cell wall was left behind can be reused if necessary... It's like building a tunnel network for your underground survival bunker... While the population moved to a new spot if there is a disaster that happens in the new location everyone can use the old tunnels to escape back to the origin point and try to find a new home... As long as there are no cave-ins of course.
I would also assume the "left behind" parts provide a more efficient return path if the opposite path is blocked, or more likely if it's finished a snack in one direction and some other leaf litter or something fell back where it previously was - I wonder to what extent it can use the previous body "path" as a sensory system and how long that sensing ability persists.
Interesting. I wonder if part of the "bad route" is metabolic waste product that might signal a less than ideal path to the nutrients.
"That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Mold and Became a Scientist's Pet."
I would unironically read it, lmao.
me too
you want a sci-fi horror, cause that's how you get a sci-fi horror
Exactly, I'm 90% sure this thing is what the red weed from WOTW is inspired by
The horror of getting 360 one-tapped on Fortnite by Jerry
Reminds me of The Blob movie.
The Last 5 mins we're basically torturing IT and seeing what Happens
This is literally the Changed furry game 😂😂😂
Jerry is a chill dude, he just duplicates himself to have a little adventure
I've invented a drinking game. Take a shot every time he says "Jerry". Last survivor wins.
(I actually love the reapeating "Jerry", lol)
tell me when you try this and who wins
What
i did it and will be asleep for a day or two
I just had the same idea but for the word goo
Seeing a diagram of the life cycle of slime molds blew my mind. Seems to completely disregard the cell theory I learned in school. It’d be awesome if you could get Jerry to change forms or reproduce, but I can’t find any resources on how that can be done in a lab.
jerry was a race car slime mold
he crawled that agar fast
he never did leave a spicy oat alone
but ate the sour one last
Well, now I’ve got Primus stuck in my head for another 24 hours … I hope you’re happy!
this is a contender for best comment I've ever seen
He's going for sustenance
He's going for seeds
He's all alone (all alone)
In the only life he'll lead
Justin's got a big green slime-mold
he showed him off to all his kin
One day, you know, that slime tried roam free
So Justin caged him up with a membrane decree
Along came Jonah to the old amoeba
And said, "I recognise that goo,
It's a pseudopodia that's been trained so fine
That slime mold eats nutrient soup all the time"
Then he connected it to a multi-electrode array
To measure the neural signals as they flowed each day
He got wind of the green slime mold's name
So he thought he'd take himself a closer claim
But Jerry was quick and he engulfed him with glee
And Justin's cells were digested, oh misery
Come on!
(I blame you Maciek!)
@@N_Jones always,
you know,
i'll slime on
compost.
growing,
pulsating,
polyyyyy-cephating ~
say it aint so
i will not go
near a sour oat -
agar me home.
Whenever i see a video talking about the intelligence of alone molds solving mazes I'm reminded of when my friend said, in response to one such video, "how does air know the best path from high pressure areas to low pressure areas, clearly it must be intelligent"
I mean the air doesn't redirect itself after it's found the right path
But that is basically how computers work.
Exactly.
Jerry the best lab pet ever
I think I might be in love with Jerry! I'm not a scientist, I am a gardener and my friends just smile when I excitedly tell them about the Troll Cat Vomit I found in the garden. I find the natural world endlessly fascinating!
2:58 Jerry is not a big truck. Jerry is not something you just dump something on. Jerry is a series of tubes.
Priceless.
I can still hear the song in my head.
@@wiintend07 What song are you talking about? "The internet is not a big truck, it's a series of tubes" is an actual quote from actual US senator Ted Stevens and if there's a funny song about it I'm here for it.
@@ACME_Kineticsthe remix, lol
@@ACME_Kinetics "series of tubes music video" is the title of it, it's a nearly 20 year old youtube video (jesus fucking christ)
16:03 I play video games with living human neurons every day
In french the common name for a Jerry is a blob (un blob).
I remember making a presentation on blobs in middle school, it was nice making others discover their quirks
I love this! I’m in 7th grade and in our school this is EXACTLY what we’re learning. Some were starting to learn but you get what I mean. My science teacher was so happy to show this to the class and she’s always glad to post videos for us 2030 kids to watch. I’ll definitely come to you if I need help with homework
I've always been curious about how giant single celled creatures function, but I haven't come across such a comprehensive explanation. This is perfect!
After many shorts, we finally have a full form video on the fabled slime mold. Thank you Thought Emporium!
2:31 TF YOU MEAN YET?
_only a matter of time..._
immortal snail but.... JERRY
Jerry controlled Gundam
-check
* it's just a puddle of slime
-talk
* you say hi
* ...
* it can't talk. yet
:)
1:54 you’re cloning Jerry????
Cloning? Nah. Reproduction? Yes :)
Awesome, a full video on Jerry!
So I get that training a clump of cells or a slime mold to play a computer game is a thing because computer games have an inherently simple interface and feedback system, but imagine this… teach Jerry to spell out words by using a word processor is read if a video game, and using spell check to give feedback, and then… see what happens. Maybe you’ll find Jerry writing poetry?
Also please name your Jerry growing kits “Jerry cans”😅
Hi Jerry.
Oh, hey Jerry.
Wait, we are all Jerry.
Become one of us.
Seems like we found the character from Dead Space series!
There is a nice SyFy book series "We are Legion (We are Bob)" where someone clones himself (or gets cloned can't remember) and colonized planets.
Jerry inspired my science fair project I did this year on slime mold! Very interesting videos
Jerry, like the internet, is a series of tubes
So as a kid my mom brought home a slime mold from a class she took... That was my pet for a few years, of course I took it to show and tell one day, and got bullied, called "Moldster" till we moved. It lived in a petri dish and had mine for a while, a long time in kid time.
"We've been working on a way to play video games with living human neurons."
You may have been beaten to that one.
yeah lol
Ah, "Jerry the Slime".. Nostalgia
Time for tree
Jerry also knows where it's already explored and knows there's nothing there, because when it retreats from an area, it leaves behind a chemical signature that it can later detect and "know" that it doesn't need to expand into that region, even after there's no more Jerry there.
5:10 STOP HURTING JERRY
Came here to say the exact same thing. Look at how they’ve massacred my boy
Love the oldschool CaptainSparklez reference with the name choice
Not enough people noticed I think :(
if you take a part of jerry, put it somewhere else and it starts growing again... do you have 2 jerrys or one jerry with space inbetween?
And will it seek other Jerry? What does it do when it encounters itself again? So many questions. 😊
Yes
It's a clone so both, it just doesn't seem as melty with plants.
Ship of Jerreseus
There is only one Jerry
Hey, it would be really interesting if you could explain slime mold behavior with the same mathematics that are behind large language models, with the mold chasing the odor of the food source along a gradient like this:
1) The slime mold senses the local concentration of odor. Higher concentration indicates proximity to the food source.
2) It calculates the gradient, which tells it which direction to grow to increase the detected odor.
3) The update rule guides the slime mold to move toward higher odor concentration by adjusting its position incrementally based on the gradient.
4) This iterative process continues until the slime mold reaches a local maximum, which corresponds to the highest odor concentration-the food source.
These are the equations involved in gradient ascent:
Objective Function:
J(θ) = - (1 / 2m) * Σ(i=1 to m) [(h_θ(x^(i)) - y^(i))^2]
Hypothesis Function:
h_θ(x) = θ^T * x
Gradient Ascent Update Rule:
θ := θ + α * ∂J(θ) / ∂θ
Gradient Calculation:
∂J(θ) / ∂θ_j = (1 / m) * Σ(i=1 to m) [(h_θ(x^(i)) - y^(i)) * x_j^(i)]
Jerry chasing people down is a highly frightening image
Fabulous!
I first heard about "Jerry" on an Attenborough video, and was fascinated. Thankyou for providing some more detail on their life and capabilities
my therapist: don't worry, slimestein isn't real, he can't hurt you.
slimestein: 1:25
I'd like to help Jerry explore other parts of the world, so excited to hear about the kit!
That's a pretty Perfect Cell.
That's a DBZ reference
"Once I revert to an egg, I must bury myself underground for three years. There, my form matures."
Soon Jerry will drink people
9:11 As a German it deeply concernes me that Auschwitz survivors warning us that we're heading down the wrong path is overwhelmingly considered a "left" topic.
I assume this got posted to the wrong video? UA-cam comments are so broken recently 😭
@@siriuslywastaken I was talking about one of the articles in the sponsored part. For once it's not a UA-cam problem. If you follow the timestamp you can see the article on the right. The day I saw this video was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz so I just felt like saying something.
@@shaxplosion ohhhh haha, that's on me for not watching the video before reading the comments
*Venom voice:* "I NEED BRAINS EDDIE, ...and Chocolate...."
This cell seems almost perfect.
4:04 nanomachines son 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
Senator Jerry!
"Making the mother of all -omlettes- slime molds! Can't fret over every -egg- nucleus!"
How do you make that little line on your letters?
@AaronEduardoAvila put hyphens around the word
What in the world is hyphen
Now enhance the human brain by throwing Jerrys at it.
You can't. Humans and slime molds aren't compatible to be symbiotic. Trying to do what you suggested would result in one of the following 2 scenarios:
1. The human body's immunity system kicks in and kills Jerry.
2. Jerry turns parasitic and eventually kills the human.
@@AhnafMardia Certainly, though given time you can force it, evolution is a powerful thing, just repeatedly throw Jerrys at a select group of humans until eventually something clicks. However, this might be considered somewhat, unethical...
As a German hearing it being pronounced "ho chest" is just brilliant.
Worked a year at Hoechst AG back in the day (now called Sanofi), but will now call it like this when I am asked about it in my CV ;-)
Her-ch-st, where ‘her’ rhymes with ‘blur’ and the ‘ch’ is soft like a Scottish ‘loch’?
@@fburton8it's ö not er. Try saying eh while rounding your lips like you would for O to pronounce it
@@fburton8 Yes my be, but the name of the German chemical company contains a "oe" which is a different spelling of the German umlaut Ö.
So it is not "her" it is "hö". (for that I have no example in the English language right now.) mabye more like a "HOE CHST"
@@actualgetawaycar That’s exactly how I pronounce ‘her’ - without the r sound! (I’m British.) I wish I knew how to write phonetic notation.
@@Gpcas9 Ah, I assumed it sounded like ö (o with umlaut). Thanks for pointing this out.
Not this specific species, but I saw slime mold in the wild last year, genuinely such a strange thing to stumble across, you think things like lichen or mushrooms can be strange looking, but actually seeing a slime mold in person makes those two look like amateurs!
Finally been waiting since the short
Jerry should start doing letsplays I’d definitely watch that
As soon as the mitochondria was mentioned, I realized I was tricked into watching a biology lesson!
Thank you for sharing this, slime mold is actually very cool. Awesome job tbh
At 12:45 you experimented starting with three separate pieces of Jerry and they seemlessly merged back into one mega-Jerry, what would happen if the three pieces were from three seperate slimes, like maybe Jerry, Terry and Kerry?
Would they still merge, avoid each other or fight over the food source?
I was also wondering this! Are the other instances of this creature actually all the same one (in a way) and therefor able to merge, or are they somehow distinct and able to maintain individuality on contact. I'd be interested to know!
GET THIS NOTICED
In one of the comments, they stated that the seperated cell is a clone, so eventually the other Jerry would recognize itself and two Jerry(s) will reconnects back into one single Jerry again. DNA knows DNA.
@@rainbowalex12akanhatduyvu95 Yes, I realised in the experiment all three seperate pieces were from the same Jerry, that's why I was asking what would happen if they weren't clones of Jerry.
Or are you suggesting that all instances of this mould worldwide are clones of Jerry?
@@Galerak1 About that case, then it depends on how the slime mold would react to anything that was in it's territory.
This is without a doubt the most interesting content this platform has today.
I love slime molds. I was surprised that there was meaningful electrical activity, I figured all of Jerry would be dynamics of chemical gradients that move much slower than electrical signals, given its normal response to stimuli time!
My Mom had colleagues that worked on Blobs, as a kid I found it so mind-blowing that a single-cell organism could do all of that
Jerry may not be a fungi, but he IS a fun guy.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
never thought I'd want a cell as a pet
Truly makes my day when I see a new video from this guy
3:40 chat, im not going to peep the horror-
Amazing reference
I’m watching this with my son and we are playing try not to laugh. For some reason we just started laughing when we started hearing Jerry called by name.
20:00 Jerry rig you mean
02:16 as a CS student I can say jerry knows Shortest Path Algorithm better than I do....
and fiiinally you talking about it . i've been waiting for you to do this video since forever
I just saw a poster on the wall of somewhere I walked by describing how they made the slime mold about 5 hours ago and now I get a video about it? This is perfect!
I always skip sponsor segments but have been so impressed with ground news that i actually allow the segments to run when i see it.
I am so happy I was waiting for a full video. This really intrigues me.
15:51 that's like when people ask why their pet does something weird. And sometimes I'm present enough to say "it's some form of cat/dog logic" ... We have our logic. And they have theirs. And there is no reason to think they're the same lol
Difference is, its just a cell, we have cells that make our brains
Like Every cell in our body has a singular programmed job , a cell from a finger cannot grow a thumb, a cell from a liver cannot help regrow a heart .....that cells job is to spread and grow
CaptainSparklez must be so proud of Jerry
Was looking for a comment like this. Naming it Jerry the Slime is either a reference to the Captain or a crazy coincidence
@@conifer27its gotta be a reference
2:38
I can't believe you didn't go for: How I learned to stop worrying and love the mold.
Jerry the Slime? Whoever named him seems like an individual of culture and good taste.
11:15 question: I see Jerry doesn't connect sweet to salty, does Jerry 'know' his 'right and left arm' are close together (does he have a 'mental map' of everything?) or does he only know once both arms (at sweet and salty) randomly bump into eachother?
Jerry is probably keeping the arms separate as a way to balance his fluid potential and prevent him from bursting open or shriveling up.
It is not sentient
@@zackatwood2867 says who
@@zackatwood2867 I don't think they were saying it is, hence the quotes around 'know' and 'mental map' implying that they're comparisons. That's just the easiest way to word the question.
Slime molds leave trace chemicals behind after they leave an area and that's how they “know” where they have been. They can probably use similar chemicals to figure out when two arms get close to each other and then I assume they use the balance of two different chemicals to decide whether to connect. Like it might produce more of chemical A the longer the arm is and a base ammount of chemical B and if there's a lot more of A than B it would connect and create a loop. That's at least how multicellular eukaryotes often make decisions by looking at the balance of two hormones, that's for example how our Neurons decide whether or not to fire and how seeds decide whether or not to sprout.
3:52 The inside of our cells are *wild*, man.
This was extremely fascinating. I’ve always found slime mold very cool
Jerry really pushes the definition of single-cell
yeah.. isnt it really a 0-cell organism?
@@Basement-Science how so? It has all the components of a cell.
@@Red_Bastion Because it doesn't have any cells.
@ The whole thing is 1 cell.
@@Red_Bastion Correct, the organism is a cell which contains 0 cells, a 0 cell organism
You have managed to make 200k + viewers emotionally invested in Jerry.
12:07 I knew it. I was waiting for you to say that you are going to modify jerry
I grew these for a science fair project in the fourth grade! Really cool to see them mentioned here!
Feed Jerry a Berry
Yes please
Jerry is one of my favorite fungi to find while hiking in the spring. We call it Dog's Vomit
Mindustry update looking fire
"proceeds to sprint to the end of the maze"
Literally just fills all available directions til it hits the correct path
That's what ya call a Jerry-rigged brain.
Oh my god, that is genius. Make him smell really good, then make a space for Jerry in your car, so he would just live in there, constantly making your car smell amazing.
SLIME MOLD VIDEO LETS GOOOOOOOOO
I don’t know if the scale is feasible but seeing Jerry solve a maze with electrodes in it would be awesome!!!
Its been 10 months since the original short
I'm glad people are still making new scps
Yes!! He did the mitochondria meme 😂🎉
You know when a video is good when you hover over the progress bar to see how much of it there is still left