At first glance, the proposition that human civilisation imitates the behaviour of slime mould is preposterous, an evolutionary leap backwards.

The large mass of slime moves about, amassing the moisture of the collective, until it finds a more hospitable region of forest, and then breaks up again into individual creatures.

An individual human consciousness is infinitely more advanced than that of a single slime mould micro-organism.

"Okay, slime-twirp.