Fungi: mycelia, mushrooms & more

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Could this not look the same if each strand of mycelium worked as an automaton?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

So did they grow towards the chicken or the beef?