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Fungal ‘Brains’ Can Think Like Human Minds, Scientists Say

  • A new study claims that fungi possess great intelligence to the point that they can make decisions.

  • A group of scientists tested how fungi would grow across patterns of blocks, and found that they grew in strategic, resource-preserving ways that indicate the ability for communication across the entire mycelial network.

  • These findings could not only lead to a better understanding of these relatively mysterious organisms, but to better comprehension of intelligence itself.

Fungal ‘Brains’ Can Think Like Human Minds, Scientists Sayhttps://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a62684718/fungi-mycelium-brains/Open linkView original on slrpnk.net
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amelore
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Could this not look the same if each strand of mycelium worked as an automaton?

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A group of scientists tested how fungi would grow across patterns of blocks,

So did they grow towards the chicken or the beef?

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