Moss Is Generating Electrical Waves That Look Startlingly Like a Neural Network
A new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, reveals that moss cushions produce surprisingly complex electrical activity, with patterns that undulate across the velvety patch in dynamic waves.
https://www.sciencealert.com/moss-behaves-a-little-like-a-really-slow-brain-scientist-discoversOpen linkView original on piefed.social
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What do you think moss thinks about?
That ludicrous display last night
Just put it with the rest of the fire
Never would I have thought, 20 years ago (!), watching the up & coming Richard Ayoade, that his character's lines would be a written meme (trope?) of the moment on an alternate social media. Legend!
Sorry, I should reply...
What's Wenger doing sending Walcott on that early?!
...but, as someone who has an Arsenal fan for a friend, and went to few Arsenal matches of that era with them, it doubley amuses me how true the quote is to real life!
Made it three posts down before this joke hit lmao.
Thank goodness this rock finally stopped rolling.
this could really fuck up my veganism
The fruiting bodies of mushrooms are the end phase of the reproductive process, you are eating the temporary sexual organs of a non mammalian organism.
They are delicious with smoked garlic infused oil.
But, like, how many mushrooms do you have to eat to hit two thousand calories?
Also, not to completely miss the joke or anything, but afaik, you can’t harvest garlic without killing the plant. And olive/seed/coconut oil is basically fetus juice, so you’re essentially eating fungus eggs with plant fetus juice and plant circulatory/digestive system organs, which feels extra fucked up, but might actually be less fucked up if the fetuses aren’t yet sentient.
I’m sorry, I’ve just been thinking about the parent comment since yesterday and it’s fucking me up. Like, eating animals still consumes more plants than eating plants, so I don’t think I’d change that aspect, but oof. I’ve never even considered how to optimize agriculture for the welfare of the plants.
It would probably make for an interesting few decades in agricultural research and philosophy, though.
If only we fan genetically modify people to live off the sun, the dirt on my feet would be enough to feed me for a month.
https://longevitybotanicals.com/blogs/mushrooms/how-mushrooms-might-sit-closer-to-animals-than-plants
They are getting ready to fight back. We don't need politicians when we have earth.
M. Night Shyamalan was right!
It really is pronounced Ong?
Move over AI, FI is the next trillion dollar industry
They already use bacterial cultures for things like the postman problem, right?
I, for one, welcome our mossy, undulating, velvety overlords.
Oh, I know someone who'll love this.
"Ere we go ere we go ere we go!"