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Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence?
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Greetings everyone.  I was thinking about this question for the longest time.  Why have magic mushrooms evolved into existence?  I find it oddly serendipitous for a mushroom of all things evolve to create a substance as psilocybin  that has such a profound effect on mammalian brain chemistry.  Is it just accidental?  Or, does psilocybin act as a potent deterrent to ground dwelling bugs that may injure the mushroom?  Or, does it attract bugs to help distribute its spores?  Or, does psilocybin give the mycelium a competitive advantage in securing food sources and fending off competing fungi? 

What do you think?


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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: AdoreChampignons]
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why does chicken taste so good? why does cows?  and the weirdest of all,  why does pussy?


the answer is, IT JUST IS! :congrats:


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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: AdoreChampignons]
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oorr, is it there cause god knew that some time down the road of history men would consume these things and ponder these very questions??

what a clever trickster that god he is!


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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: grymmtymm] * 1
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No, there is no god.

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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? (moved) [Re: AdoreChampignons]
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<img src='http://www.shroomery.org/forums/images/moved.gif'> This thread was moved from Advanced Mycology.

Reason:
It's really not that different from asking why poison ivy, poisonous mushrooms, or the giant redwoods evolved.  It's not a subject for advanced mycology, but rather for philosophy, so I'll move it to the P & S forum, which I think would be more appropriate.  I'm not a Philosophy & Spirituality regular, so P & S mods, feel free to move it to another forum if this was the wrong choice.
RR

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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: AdoreChampignons]
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Why do ladybugs have spots?
Why does my dog smell like shit when she gets wet?
Why does my toe have an ingrown nail?

Why not?

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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: Sleepwalker]
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Well...

Most shrooms are poisonous. Its a defense mechanism that mycelium developed long ago to help protect and perpetuate its species.

Psilocybin is no different. Its technically still toxic to us. The side effect are hallucinations and altered mental state. If another animal were to eat them, they would just be fuct up and probably not want to eat that mushroom again. But for us intellectually evolved humans, they offer something special, and different.



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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: BrainChemistry]
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While psilocybin mushrooms do have some toxicity, it's not the toxin itself that makes you trip...


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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: Sleepwalker]
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Right..its the psilocybin. Guess i'm being loose the word "toxic".

I


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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: BrainChemistry]
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I'm just nitpicking.  It does make sense that the trippy effects would keep the mushrooms safe similarly to a real poison.

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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: Sleepwalker]
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Yep, I kinda feel like tossing this out there though.

What if mushrooms exist because the Earth is trying to communicate its knowledge to a sentient race (i.e. us). Maybe all the other poisonous mushrooms are just failed attempts at creating the "exact" shroom that the Earth needs to speak to us. Maybe all those psilocybies out there have just been waiting for us to come along and pick them and eat them and learn how to grow them.

Or maybe other mushrooms that are poisonous to us would have made the dinosaurs trip out if they had become sentient.

:rasta:


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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: BrainChemistry]
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Or it was just chance that these mushrooms evolved psilocybin and that it resembles one of our neurotransmitters simply by accident.


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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: BrainChemistry]
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BrainChemistry said:
Yep, I kinda feel like tossing this out there though.

What if mushrooms exist because the Earth is trying to communicate its knowledge to a sentient race (i.e. us). Maybe all the other poisonous mushrooms are just failed attempts at creating the "exact" shroom that the Earth needs to speak to us. Maybe all those psilocybies out there have just been waiting for us to come along and pick them and eat them and learn how to grow them.

Or maybe other mushrooms that are poisonous to us would have made the dinosaurs trip out if they had become sentient.

:rasta:


Well if mushrooms are that much a part of the Earth, so are we.  Earth is talking to itself? I suppose..

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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: deCypher]
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The Cypher said:
Or it was just chance that these mushrooms evolved psilocybin and that it resembles one of our neurotransmitters simply by accident.


Mmmmmm  :uptosomething:

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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: Sleepwalker]
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Oweyervishice said:
BrainChemistry said:
Yep, I kinda feel like tossing this out there though.

What if mushrooms exist because the Earth is trying to communicate its knowledge to a sentient race (i.e. us). Maybe all the other poisonous mushrooms are just failed attempts at creating the "exact" shroom that the Earth needs to speak to us. Maybe all those psilocybies out there have just been waiting for us to come along and pick them and eat them and learn how to grow them.

Or maybe other mushrooms that are poisonous to us would have made the dinosaurs trip out if they had become sentient.

:rasta:


Well if mushrooms are that much a part of the Earth, so are we.  Earth is talking to itself? I suppose..


Yeah but Earth is obviously way older than us. Its gots more knowledges!


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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: BrainChemistry]
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Ever listen to what it has to tell you?

:psychsplit:

(I'm tripping out)

Edited by SyntheticMInd (09/12/08 02:01 AM)

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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: deranger]
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Yeah but it doesn't communicate very clearly.

Signs and hidden messages and symbols and all that jazz.

Awful confusing.


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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: BrainChemistry]
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Haha, yeah I try not to think about it.

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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: BrainChemistry]
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BrainChemistry said:
Oweyervishice said:
BrainChemistry said:
Yep, I kinda feel like tossing this out there though.

What if mushrooms exist because the Earth is trying to communicate its knowledge to a sentient race (i.e. us). Maybe all the other poisonous mushrooms are just failed attempts at creating the "exact" shroom that the Earth needs to speak to us. Maybe all those psilocybies out there have just been waiting for us to come along and pick them and eat them and learn how to grow them.

Or maybe other mushrooms that are poisonous to us would have made the dinosaurs trip out if they had become sentient.

:rasta:


Well if mushrooms are that much a part of the Earth, so are we.  Earth is talking to itself? I suppose..


Yeah but Earth is obviously way older than us. Its gots more knowledges!


I'm like a bacteria trying to understand my human. :eek:

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Re: Why Has the Magic Mushroom Evolved Into Existence? [Re: Sleepwalker]
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:lol:

Or like a cell, trying to understand the body it is apart of. :crazy:

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