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In the only directly-testable system (Physarum), body-wide contraction FAILS to globally coordinate: coordination is intermittent and slowly-modulating — wave direction reverses and amplitude drifts — which REFUTES the global standing wave.

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Grade E2 · state: verified · id: IB-physarum-intermittency

Quantities: coordination intermittent / emergent; wave direction reverses; amplitude drifts; laminar Reynolds ~0.0008

Primary source

Alim et al. 2013, PNAS
Alim et al. 2017, PNAS
2023-26 Physarum intermittency work (report cites loosely; no precise reference given)

Edges (outgoing)

• refutes → CLAIM (refuted): Physarum holds its body-wide memory 'aloft' via a sin — measured intermittency contradicts a permanently phase-locked global wave
• relates → In crows, mobbing is a self-reinforcing recruitment LOOP: 82% of scold — cross-domain: the imprint is RE-CAUGHT / re-broadcast each cycle, not statically held (memory falls and is re-caught)

Incoming edges (what points here)

• In crows, mobbing is a self-reinforcing recruitment LOOP: 82% of scold — relates → this (cross-domain: memory is RE-BROADCAST at each encounter, not statically held aloft)
• In Physarum actomyosin, Ca2+ INHIBITS contraction — the opposite sign — relates → this (this local oscillator is exactly what fails to lock into one global wave)