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Fungal ‘Brains’ Can Think Like Human Minds, Scientists Say (www.popularmechanics.com)
submitted 6 days ago by SteveKLord to c/fungus
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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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[–] amelore 3 points 5 days ago

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

[–] GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2 points 5 days ago

@SteveKLord

Slime molds can also solve certain problems like traveling salesman problems. They do it by actually expanding through a map of food sources. Interestingly, this giant Superorganism of I think Amita does so probably more quickly than even a very large data center.

And it would do so using far fewer resources.

[–] python@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

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

So did they grow towards the chicken or the beef?