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Mystic_Cannibal
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Mushroom fiber brain network?
#7912109 - 01/21/08 09:00 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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I remember reading somewhere maybe it was Mckenna that certain mushrooms will have underground networks of tiny fibers connecting different mushrooms over long distances, this was theorized to be something like a brain. Does anyone know anything about this? Is there any truth to it at all? Like I know obviously science wouldnt think of it as a brain but does anyone have any info?
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> Is there any truth to it at all?
As with all this type of mumbo-jumbo, there is always a hint of truth to it... but it is much more of a fanciful dream than anything known to be real. The truth... the largest known living thing on earth is a fungal mass in North America, occupying an area almost nine square kilometers in size. The fanciful... just because a living thing is big does not mean that it is intelligent, has a brain, etc.
> I know obviously science wouldnt think of it as a brain
Then it isn't a brain as defined by science... which leaves being a brain as defined by mumbo-jumbo. Who knows... maybe mumbo-jumbo is correct and science is wrong... but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Re: Mushroom fiber brain network? [Re: Seuss]
#7914479 - 01/22/08 12:30 PM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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well to look at it the way it is, mycorrhiza, which is what I'm going to assume you're talking about, helps nurture plants around it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza to read more about this amazing process/aspect of some fungi.
Whether it's a connected neural network, who knows? You could say the same for anything else that has had a tremendous impact on your life, so what singles out mushrooms and some testamonial from mckenna.
By all means, I appreciate his creative thought, but if you go for a walk in the woods, you'd see how interconnected EVERYTHING is. Mushrooms are just part of the equation.
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Re: Mushroom fiber brain network? [Re: Seuss]
#7915594 - 01/22/08 04:42 PM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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Seuss said: the largest known living thing on earth is a fungal mass in North America, occupying an area almost nine square kilometers in size.
That is interesting....  The last I had heard the largest living organism was a group of trees with a common root system.... That was a while ago, if I even remember correctly....
If memory serves me, the largest bio-mass was a large group of salps.... The largest synchronized spawning are the corals on the reefs.... For every one pound of human, there are 300 pounds of insects....  etc etc....
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Re: Mushroom fiber brain network? [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7916106 - 01/22/08 06:09 PM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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hmm well that is very interesting alright, I myself didnt think of it as a brain but I wasnt even sure if mushrooms grow like that. Even though its highly unlikely to function like a brain its still really cool though. This also really depends on how intelligent you think a mushroom is.
But ya I get ya about how everything is interconnected so its kind of a pointless question
I suppose its just as likely to be some kind of a subway system for the different gnomes who live in each mushroom
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Re: Mushroom fiber brain network? [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7918760 - 01/23/08 04:56 AM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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> The last I had heard the largest living organism was a group of trees with a common root system..
Yep, an Aspen Grove, if I remember correctly... with a common root system occupying around 1/2 square kilometer.
However, there are many different "largest" metrics... largest mass, largest volume, largest projected area, etc.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_828525.htm
> For every one pound of human, there are 300 pounds of insects....
A single bat can eat over 3000 mosquitoes in one night at a rate of up to 1200 an hour.
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Mystic_Cannibal said: I remember reading somewhere maybe it was Mckenna that certain mushrooms will have underground networks of tiny fibers connecting different mushrooms over long distances, this was theorized to be something like a brain. Does anyone know anything about this? Is there any truth to it at all? Like I know obviously science wouldnt think of it as a brain but does anyone have any info?
It is not direct.. But compare what you think of, as a simple .. I forgot the name.. Star fish? They move really slow, and have a number of arms, from a center..
Anyways, they have no brain.. They are classified as being one big brain.. The whole body is working in unison whit only itself..
Now, when I at least, think of the evolution, .. Organisms, plants, animals.. ..comes to mind, to cut it shortly..
So.. That there could be a "integrated network brain being", being shrooms interlinked under ground as one big being, seem plausible to me.. It might even boarder on to the very "theory of Gaia .. " ..
Edited by Gomp (01/23/08 08:45 AM)
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Re: Mushroom fiber brain network? [Re: Gomp]
#7919903 - 01/23/08 01:34 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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> Anyways, they have no brain.. They are classified as being one big brain..
Almost. They have no brain, but they do have a complex nervous system.
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