"What that means, according to Dussutour [...] is that a slime mold can learn — and it can keep that knowledge during dormancy, despite the extensive physical and biochemical changes in the cells that accompany that transformation. Being able to remember where to find food is a useful skill for a slime mold to have in the wild, because its environment can be treacherous. [...] More fundamentally, she said, this result also means that there is such a thing as ‘primitive cognition,’ a form of cognition that is not restricted to organisms with a brain.”