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  "oags": "0.2",
  "status": "alpha",
  "entry": {
    "id": "IB-physarum-extended-memory",
    "type": "evidence",
    "claim": "Physarum uses an EXTERNALIZED spatial memory — avoidance of its own extracellular slime trail — to escape a U-shaped trap: 96% of trials escaped (n=24) versus 33% when the whole arena was pre-coated with slime so the cue was uninformative.",
    "evidence_grade": "E1",
    "state": "verified",
    "primary_source_ref": [
      "Reid et al. 2012, PNAS"
    ],
    "quantities": "96% escape (n=24) vs 33% on slime-pre-coated agar"
  },
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      "target": "IB-physarum-tube-memory",
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    {
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      "from": "IB-physarum-tube-memory",
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    "https://infoblock.org/b/IB-physarum-tube-memory/",
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  "declared_losses": [
    "Public evidence-graph projection: internal analytic/theory edges and private provenance are withheld by design (empirics-only surface).",
    "Alpha: some primary-source refs are pending precise citation verification."
  ],
  "generated": "2026-07-30"
}