Atsushi Tero is a researcher, biologist, and associate professor of applied mathematics at Kyushu University.
This affects biology and philosophy because a brainless organism seemed to be making decisions to solve the maze.
[4][5][6] Atsushi Tero won the Ig Nobel Prize along with Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Akio Ishiguro, and Ágota Tóth in Cognitive Science in 2008.
[7] Atsushi Tero won the Ig Nobel Prize with Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi, Dan Bebber, and Mark Fricker in Transportation Planning in 2010.
They received this prize for using slime molds to depict Tokyo’s railway system in possibly a more efficient way.