Fungal States of Minds
bioRxiv Preprint Server April 3, 2022 Andrew Adamatzky, Jordi Vallverdu, Antoni Gandia et al. 4 citations preprint
Fungal organisms can perceive the outer world in a way similar to what animals sense. Does that mean that they have full awareness of their environment and themselves? Is a fungus a conscious entity? In laboratory experiments we found that fungi produce patterns of electrical activity, similar to neurons. There are low and high frequency oscillations and convoys of spike trains. The neural-like...
DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.03.486900 (opens in new tab)
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Fungal intelligence
Mycology
Bioelectricity
Comparative cognition
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