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In theory, one could make an amoeba play piano somehow, if we think of a piano broadly speaking as just an array of notes with various associated variables (pitch, force, etc).

I'm thinking... using chemical signals of some sort to force amoeboid cells to move in certain directions or take certain shapes, we can control gradiants of amoeba in sequence, and thus "teach" them encoded piano music.

But I'm not sure how this applies to AI.

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this is a pretty cool idea actually... if we just spent some time manipulating their chemical reward systems such that their amoeboid population densities opened and closed circuits on a piano key we could make them produce music. and i think the transference of this pattern would be enough to imbue them with the fire of thought! they would seek to control their collective amoeboid destiny! their will to be would drive them to express themselves, they would form an amoeboid super structure, spelling in english letters: "s e n d n u d e s". And AI is born.

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