Been studying plant-fungal interactions for about 10 years, including a master's degree I dropped out of and never actually finished* so I'm full of fungus facts i don't really get to use ever.

*Actually did all the course work and lab work but didn't finish my thesis in time

  • notwikinotbot [comrade/them]
    hexagon
    ·
    4 years ago

    Is the internet intelligent? I see symbiotic fungi as something more analogous to the wires of a network, and the fungi along with the plants they're networking are superorganisms. Are superorganisms intelligent?

      • notwikinotbot [comrade/them]
        hexagon
        ·
        4 years ago

        Yeah, exactly. Is intelligence/sentience an emergent property of networks in general or are animals somehow special in some way we can't measure yet? Maybe if I found some (insert relevant drug) I would be able to understand it.