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Researchers show that an iron bar is capable of decision-making
Decision-making—the ability to choose one path out of several options—is generally considered a cognitive ability possessed by biological systems, but not by physical objects. Now in a new study, researchers have shown that any rigid physical (i.e., non-living) object, such as an iron bar, is capable of decision-making by gaining information from its surroundings accompanied by physical fluctuations.
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This is actually crazy simple stuff, with mind-blowing applications in the future. Reading this article, i'm like "Duh! Of course!" But no one ever thought through just what could be done with this stuff. So very cool.