Fungal organism displays intelligence

Published on 31 October 2024 at 07:47

"They have memories, they learn, and they can make decisions."

"In a series of experiments detailed in a paper published in the journal Fungal Ecology, Fukasawa and his colleagues arranged small wood blocks in different shapes, and allowed a network of P. velutina mycelium — which typically feeds on peach and nectarine trees — to go to town on them.

 

What they found was startling: that the mycelium appeared to be making decisions depending on the arrangement of the blocks, rather than simply spreading from a central point — suggesting a rudimentary level of intelligence, the researchers say."

 

https://futurism.com/the-byte/fungus-signs-rudimentary-intelligence

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