• 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.

  • GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
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    14 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.