It's trippy. 🍄
Mushrooms are solitary creatures who don't move or prey on others. But it's possible that they might just chatter.implanted electrodes into four different types of fungi
and found that they seem to communicate internally using electrical impulses about food or an injury. A mathematical analysis of the electrical signals that fungi send to each other revealed that the patterns in these"messages" are surprisingly similar to human speech. In fact, the scientist found that the signal groups are so sophisticated that they actually resemble words — leading to the discovery that a mushroom's vocabulary may contain around 50 words.
"We do not know if there is a direct relationship between spiking patterns in fungi and human speech. Possibly not,” Adamatzky explained. “On the other hand, there are many similarities in information processing in living substrates of different classes, families and species. I was just curious to compare.”
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