Slime molds and Maeterlinck

01 January 1970 1 4K Report

In "The Life of the Bee" by Maeterlinck (edited in 1901!), one can read that the research of a Carter revealed that such phenomena as the free will, desire and free choice manifest itself in creatures so primeval as the slime molds. (I have paraphrased this fragment from a Polish translation from French).

Does, perhaps, anybody know something about the Carter and his/her research, papers etc? They date from the XiXth century. It looks as if the computational skills of slime molds have been known for much longer than one could expect.

Sebastian Pintscher

maybe Henry John Carter (1813-1895)?

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