Could the Cordyceps Fungus Really Take Over? 

Haha, yep!!!

lmao exactly

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Lmao so true. I already had that panic

You weren’t the only one!😮😂

@@sraftyc7773 Explain.

its kind of like rabbies.

@@sraftyc7773 You no-pfp people are wild.

@@sraftyc7773 ain’t no way ☠️

@@sraftyc7773 you are experiencing delusions and/or paranoia, seek professional help.

So you actually faced this kind of fungus? Have you noticed a change in their behavior? And are the other one effected?

@@Crypto2638 The other Ants were not affected. Only that Queen that was kicked out of her colony because she was fighting with the other Queen was being affected. When she got kicked out she was severely injured. She was missing legs and had gashes all over her. I put her in a testube by herself and she was there for a days. On day three I noticed fungus was coming out of her gashes. She was still alive and walking around though. I’m pretty sure got infected with the fungus because she had many open wounds and she couldn’t keep herself clean. After she got infected with it. I killed her and threw her body out.

Little did you know... you would soon become patient zero for the real fungal pandemic, laying complete waste to humanity. As the only infected individual who maintained full autonomy of the brain, you will have to fight your way through a post-apocalyptic wasteland to reach the last bastion of human civilization and authority - an island fortress off the coast of Normandy - only to find out your brain must be removed to develop an effective cure@@Passarium-1195​

My knowledge on the entire subject is limited at best hence the questions…if you couldn’t stop it the first time how do you stop it the second? At what point in the process did you become aware of what was happening and how does that help you now? I’m sure there are other questions I should be asking but let’s just start there…this stuff is crazy and worrisome and I’m sure far worse than what the video game or HBO show suggests…thanx for whatever you can and do impart

This is absurdly interesting. Is there anything notable the rest of the colony did afterwards? What ate you doing to prevent it?

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lol i have been having that fear all the way since the first game came out

Lol, people who played the game already understood that fear

worry not long story short were too complicated, our brains our immune systems its like a microscopic speck trying to fight mike tyson i dont know about people from the future tho

Never going to happen

so it's like a system that has different itterations, and when it encounters a problem in one of it's itterations, it then consults on the others as to what it can do to prevent or remove the problem? i may just be repeating what has been said, i'm just trying to clarify it for my own understanding.

@@nightshade4873 more or less. That's the personification of it (it's not like the cells are super intelligent and plan it out). What they do is the DNA containing nuclei cluster around the problem and provide their genetic material to best solve the problem. If one happens to have a slight edge, that one gets duplicated more and more. This process likely plays a big role in how fungi can seem to develop odd adaptations when faced with difficult situations such as eating plastic (as documented in lab grown and some wild fungi) and producing energy from ionizing radiation (as fungi near Chernobyl's elephant foot has done).

holy guacomoley =0

Seems mycobes could really challenge molluscs in terms of creativity and problem solving.

@@Scipiworld so in theory they could take other humnas

The comforting part is that the fungus probably isolates your brain from your senses, so there's a chance you won't be aware of anything that's happening outside your body. You might just be a confused, scared mind floating in darkness and silence, waiting for death. Sorry, did I say comforting? I meant alternatively horrifying.

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@@amberlennox5618 How did you come to this conclusion? Sensory neurons and motor neurons are different networks. There is abundant evidence of motor neuron control by the fungus. But where is the evidence for the additional sensory neuron control?

@@brianbarrett192 they don't control the sensory neurons, afaik they just infiltrate enough of the ant's body that isn't not clear whether sensory signals make it to the brain intact.

Now imagine that was injected to people saying it was COVID VACCINES... And they know the behaviour the modern humanity NPC zombies will have and they will control masses with several well studied stimuli.

People die from the flu and we have a vaccine for that, we wouldn’t know what would happen with this until well it ever jumps Rabies is the only one that possibly could evolve into some kind of “zombie virus”

I just wonder what is being done by scientists in secret, weaponizing viruses has been on the agenda for a long time now... would they be capable altering and weaponizing fungus as well?

thank you

Inn the video she says the cordyceps doesn't target the brain, but the muscles only. Or is that what you're saying- that the muscles would still need to override the brain signals?

​@@mattpopemusicIn a dumbed down way, he's saying that the Cordyceps can't just come and give order to your muscles while the almighty brain and the badass immune system is there. 😅

And game

Game came out in 2013, the show is based on the game

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​@@Battle_mista The tendrils sticking out of the mouth isn't in the game.

​@@TherapyGelit is, some runners have it

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theres also a scene where you walk in on two infected eating a man and the infected woman is crying and saying stuff like " oh god" and "i dont wanna" inbetween bites

@@kavx4208 Is that in the game?

@@runningsandwich yes! dont remember which of the two but if you search it on youtube im sure you'll find the moment I was talking about

isn't it also the same where head-crab infected people in half-life 2 will cry out for help backwars

That's so scary 😟

That is a perfect synopsis for a super creepy movie or book plot.

@@rainbowinthedark453the last of us

@@darkbringr88 that’s a movie already out oh wow, I didn’t know. I thought my daughter has a PlayStation game like that.

@@rainbowinthedark453 it was a game. turned into a show.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

sort of feels like revenge for a crime that has not been commited yet

Can you get psilocybe cubensis with a hello fresh membership? 😂

@@Eleventhearlofmarsone can dare to dream 😎

What a strange comment

same lol. i was obsessed w nat geo as a kid, they covered the fungus in like 2010 or something. i found it on youtube when i was like 8-ish and its scared me shitless ever since

Yes. Especially as you die of rapid dehydration ended by complete body-shattering tissue trauma.🤔😱

yup those ants basically dehydrate and starve to death clamped on the leaf, never being able to let go

There’s plenty of fates worse than death. This is definitely high on the list though.

I'd hate to be an ant thrown into the Sunken Place tbh

I took a big dose of LSD once together with MDMA, at some point I lost control of everything and could no longer control my body, but I was still fully aware and scared out of my mind. By far the most terrifying experience in my life, sometimes I can't help but feel that psychedelics have huge similarities with these fungi taking over. I know some people view psychedelics as sacred medicine and healers, but maybe that's their trick to lure us in and take over? :p

it is already here. But the zombies are accepted and praised. This is called "diversity"

I Am Legend 2007 would be up there.

also maybe an evolved/mutated rabies?

Nah a rabies like one would be far more realistic such as 28 days later

its evolving mainly on ants for millions of years its not going to infect humans

SAME every time I hear how we should “get back to nature” I mean - yes, please consume natural food, sunshine, and physical work But let’s not get crazy!

its scary stuff

Even in the game you have incidents of victims crying and even trying to cry out in clear revulsion at what they are doing.

No clearly the people are still alive, they’re brains are being hijacked by Cordyceps which has full motor control of the victim’s body. The people are still inside and enduring the pain

When Ellie encountered the stuck mushroomzombie in the basement, you could see both sentience and despair in its eyes. So probably some of the persons former self was in there. But the fungus was stronger.

Imagine missing the initial hype train, and then thinking the tv show is the hit, irony son

@@kornandfoofighters but the show is a hit for all the normies… you think my mom is playing last of us ?

Will the fungus mutate and cross the species barrier?

I remember reading about this and hearing about it on NPR almost 10 years ago. It's been known for awhile.

Look up how long tapeworms can get inside your intestines 😳😱

@@frenne_dilley You dont watch many horror movies, do you? There are many good and scary horror movies. It becomes too normal that people know nothing about a topic but yet think they know everything about it... Like "The Witch"! Thats a good one!

same

Amogus sus

Well there is a deadpool zombie comic book that explore this theme.

This is possibly hinted at in Half-Life 2 (and onwards). The zombies (people taken over by headcrabs) make some very distinct noises, and from what I've heard these noises are actually reversed and distorted speech, saying things like "help me!" and, iirc, "kill me!" "Get it off!" Might be another one. It's been years since I've listened to it reversed (un-reversed technically I guess lol), but the implication is the same. The conscious parts of the host's brain are damaged, but not destroyed... and the body is being puppeteered while the person inside is helpless.

The movie Warm bodies.

Was about to say warm bodies as well, fun movie

As a kid I read a sci fi story where alien parasite gets in your head and takes over the body while the person remains inside. Half the book was a conversation between the protagonist and the alien controlling his body. Edit: I found it, its Animorphs book 6

Was wayyy worse than the ants even

I literally closed my eyes. I don't remember ever reacting like this. Snails are disgusting enough. That pulsating thing was too much for me.

@@Erickhetfield at least they didn't show the bird eating the snail's eyes

I needed to close my eyes too. That swelling and pulsation, is just insanely and deeply horrifiyng.

We Chinese: yummy

this is why you should use protection so you do not succumb to those zombie making funguses cause if they can adapt to human biology they can make people into zombies🤮

Well in one you’re not necessarily aware or at least you want/are compelled to kill yourself, while on the other instance, you’re aware your body is being poisoned and controlled by a fungus and slowly suffocating every cell in your body

fuck this shit im out

It's not uncommon in the least bit. This of all the things you don't swear on your brain that still affect you. The smell of bacon cooking, shower water suddenly running cold, mosquitoes bites, your lover whispering in your ear, a stubbed toe, angry youtube comments, and most of all, your belly. Hungry? You need to eat. Full? You need to rest. Eating leftover Chinese too late? *Run.* In your digestive track, beyond the simple instincts, lies billions of microbes. They all have an impact on your mind. There is a thing called a stool transplant, and it's exactly what you are thinking. But the reason is to supplement the natural flora in your digestive biome. I 100% recommend you look it up

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Fr fr, no cap 😥

Lol 💀

FG reference

please learn a new meme.

@@bobsponge1877 you must have a lot of friends

Too late

Sussy

SUSSY

That day is here already

... leading to being insane in the membrane.

People eat other types of cordyceps

The Last of Us

Simpsons predictions of zombies for 2023

the last of us series hbo

@@safuwanfauzi5014 that’s exactly what we deserve too. I feel horrible for my kids but I for one welcome the fungi apocalypse.

Good luck, and good night XD

I think you should seek proof of it instead of taking their word on an arbitrary hunch exaggerated for shock value. War and celestial physics are pretty much the only things our modern science has absolutely no solutions for, but when it comes to biology, oh boy your teacher is severely underestimating the human medical prowess. DNA targeting nanobots/biologics, radiation therapy, gene editing, tissue printing, robotics, and not to mention the various public safety protocols that can pretty much guarantee survival if people will just stop being dumb. Oh and "burn the body" has been a tried and true option since every known plague. Saying our greatest threat is something we can't defend against is like saying you can't lick your own elbow, it's stating the obvious, and there is no point to even identifying the threat. It can be an indestructible virus, it can be an asteroid with a 10km + radius, a big solar flare, a black hole speeding towards our galaxy, etc etc. They'll all kill us because the hypothetical included an absolute condition.

Except no fungus can survive a flamethrower and no species of fungus could survive ten million flamethrowers. A virus is dangerous because it can't be fought with military weapons, a fungus can.

I also own a gas mask, as a civilian, that has filters that would render these spores useless. We have the technology to defeat any fungus.

If something really bad happens we can always go into full isolation and wear proper proper filtered sealed mask.

Too bad it is totally unscientific when talking about an ant's mind. They are not "aware" of what is happening to them. They are not conscious.

@@scrubjay93 and?

It sounds a lot like Morgellons, doesn't it?!

But that's how it works in bugs. Who knows how it would evolve in the human brain...

Dunno, with the trumpers I feel we are already there.. have been for years and no one seems to care. I'm just happy I don't have one of the infected living in my home..

"Have always been" "perfect timing" hmmmm

you could say they're a... sussy subject

thanks! we may need to up our blood sacrifice to the algorithm or something

@@realscience You may need to get a bit creative in winning over the algorithm… I believe it to be an artificial parasitic intelligence 🍄 that has developed to use RU-vid to take over human brains and force us to watch what it chooses. You may be seen as a threat 🦢 by the algorithm since you understand the science. 🤓

@@realscience Hello, I remeber reading about a man called Phineas Gage who got an open head wound from an accident. As the doctor was treating him this fungus thing started sprawling out of his brain. Its worth checking out his story.Very creepy stuff.

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@@Tondadrd The problem is notifications are how a lot of people check. This channel seems to not send out notifications despite users being signed up for notifications. edit: the solution to this is usually to unsubscribe and re-subscribe.

Damn you are right

Damn it. Sounds legit. Probably why i hate it. I mean even muk feels more right than paras/parasect. Also the name para in parasite.

I’ve played Pokémon and never realized that

I think the Pokémon inspired nature

Tochukaso!!!!

Yeah, I watched some videos. Creepy AF

Lmfao! You guys watch way too much TV. I live in NYC and bathsalts, k2, etc are very popular here, as are all drugs lol, let me tell you a FACT everyone I've seen who has those horrible reactions to that crap WERE ALREADY MENTALLY FUCT UP BEFORE !!! idc what you see on the news, it's all bs, just like every drug if a person already has a mental illness the drugs make it worse. All that "he was a perfectly normal boy until he took bathsalts " IS TOTAL BS!

Every once in a blue moon we get people obviously on something that come running to us terrified of people chasing them asking us to call the cops, they usually last no more than 5 minutes before running off in terror. I always wondered what they were on until I heard about Flakka, when they went over that part of it I had a moment where I took far too much joy in FINALLY knowing what it likely was.

Yeah, bout them bath salts... ain't no one I know heard of them b4 or since. At risk of going into tin foil hat territory here, so y'kno. But hey, remember pcp or 2ci? How bout khat,synthetic thc or Sally d? You see, kids round here were doing these drugs. We heard about them, then they were available, then, for what ever reason, they declined in popularity and really aren't available no more. All I know about bath salts is some dude pulled some bitey shit, it was in the news and then nothing. Drug fads don't work like that. If you hear about it in the news, you can usually find it or someone familiar with it in the streets. I've never met anyone, except a couple dummies who thought they actually meant the relaxation health product, who knew shit or heard anything about this before that story hit the news. Never heard from it since. Anyone out there able to tell me different, please do since I'll sleep a lot better being wrong in this opinion than continue to live with the nagging suspicion that my nut job cousin who claimed that shit happened near a lab testing zombie virus can actually be right in one of his drunk ass rants...

"They need some milk!"

I'm still wrapping my brain around the fact that ants even HAVE minds!?

@@NicholasGuccione they don't really, although a fair argument could be made that an ant hive does. the leafcutter ant which uses more plant matter than any non-human animal in the amazon rainforest doesn't eat the leaves it cuts but uses them as fertilizer to grow a fungus which they eat, how's that for irony, ie leafcutter ants farm.

it's not something that happens to amphibians, reptiles, birds or even other mammals so I don't see where cordyceps fungus could do that to humans and even it's effect on an ant is not make the ant go around and bite other ants but to climb high so the cordyceps spores can be released and spread.

@@NicholasGuccione Well a simplistic mind, but still a neural network nonetheless. What else did you think they have?

My god that means in last of us all zombies have their human mind still intact.

Anyone notice at 8:36 in the video that the spore pouch looks like a brain 🧠 🤔🤔

@@neugen1019 It's called a perithecium, it can look spherical or more like a jug or a flask in some cases. If you look up perithecium on Google Images you'll see what it looks like inside, it has an opening through which the spores are released. Even though it may look like a brain, this is only because both have a vaguely spherical shape, but that's where the similarities end. Fungi don't have brains.

@@neugen1019 Nah

@@desmond-hawkins what I was wondering in light of the revelation that the cordyceps doesn't seem to infect/control the brain but grows this kinda parallel nervous system and uses that to control the ant's movement is this: How does the fungus receive and interpret information about the world outside it's host or use it to coordinate the ant's movement to guide it to such specific locations for optimal spread without controlling the ant's brain or having a brain or sensory organs of its own?

They are all Hive Minded.

everyone is brainwashed by TV shows.

Its make believe

@@brendanroberts4866 Thanks. We would have been lost with out you. Thank God I thought it was real. Don't assume we are all Schmucks please. I mean what else could be ment by this

@@BIATEC88 im relieved, and im glad it got under your skin to the extent you felt compelled to respond and explain, this indicates 2nd order intelligence.

@@brendanroberts4866 I'm relieved aswell. All over your face

Artificial organs control his living thing.

Maybe artificial heart?

I guess McDonalds implanted special microbiome inside me. Now it adds up

Years ago I was ill and became very dehydrated (needed iv fluids). While I was dehydrated, I developed an intense attraction to all evidence of water (rain on a windowpane, dew on the grass, the sound of a dripping tap) but even more weirdly I developed an intense attraction to the colour blue (not usually my favorite colour). I presume it reminded me of water, particularly the bright aqua blue seen inside swimming pools. I actually ordered a backpack online just because it was blue, and have it to this day, but feel very ambivalent about it. Definitely my high sodium levels were changing something in my brain.

seriously, fuck bugs. i'm glad they're dying out

@@andrew5222 ....many bugs are crucial to our eco-sysyem so without bees for example to spread plant pollen we all die....many animals & critters eat bugs & if they're gone we're screwed.

@@MrGarymola Still fuck bugs, most of them. Some are cool, like bees as you mentioned. In school, there was a small tree with flowers and someone showed me you could pet the bees, so sometimes I would pet them. They cool

A faint “WAAGGHHHH!” is heard in the city of New York, it’s already too late

Yes but to me that's not mind blowing It's like us liking to be in a warmer area in the cold or being in colder area in the heat You understand what you need Same goes for the fungus it doesn't understand why it grows more and easier there it just knows that it does And just finds the perfect spot to grow And this is all thanks to evolution Some of them go to warmer places some of them go to higher places but the only ones that survive are the ones going to the "perfect" spot so their genes get passed down to the next generation but the other ones don't

The fungus isn't aware of itself and it isn't intelligent. Is a bug that evolved to look like a stick to avoid predators intelligent? No, it's just a result of the mechanism of evolution, much like the fungus.

People on PCP get naked, and run to sprinklers, because they feel they are too hot.

That effing part

That would explain a lot 😂

That's why you absolutely have to cook them

Idk why you'd even suggest that, it's just paranoid. You should really try some cordyceps fungus to calm down, it'll be great

@@eclogite You're probably right, but I do think it's weird that the instructions on this bottle of cordyceps supplements says, "Do not swallow. Take contents of 1-2 capsules and inhale directly into lungs, or inject into bloodstream. Then go outside and climb a tree. Not too high but, like, kind of high. Y'know what I mean? Well, you'll know."

I see it everywhere

my takeaway was to get tested for toxoplasmosis, I already have ADHD, I don't need something else messing with my energy and reaction time

Think of all the people that are locked away in psych wards exhibiting signs of schizophrenia (a common symptom of toxoplasmosa gondii infection) that could be cured with a simple injection...

@@horrorclose9462 is it really that easily cured? I'm a cat person myself as well, i'm getting suspicious of what my feline daughter may brought home.

God it's so cringey seeing full grown adults calling cats and dogs their "fur babies"

@@noahjones8616 who hurt you

I think this explains Democrats.

It's so much easier...eat the food, then buy more...

i was about to comment this thanks

"Hello fresh" ??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yyyyyyeah, more like : " hello hormone disruptors".... Yeah NO THANKS. 😡😡😡😡😡

Democrats.

what about the Goo? #BlackGoo #GreyGoo and on and on...

We should do something about that.

@@gabict8866 that’s a theory of what could happen with nanotechnology gone wrong cordyceps are a very real thing

There's not enough resources in the rain forest.

Forbidden fruit

Psilocybin is the future for us with major depression, it helps in an incredibly positive way. Wish I could find more so I can keep feeling like a normal human lol

That my man is a profound statement you left there..with a seriously simple execution. It’s going in my stolen sayings to spread with good intentions folder, to use at a later date for sure ! You’re right though. It is like some one enters your mind makes you hand over your car keys and forces you to ride along the path they choose weather you wanna go or not. while steering your vessel all Willy Nilly like…having zero respect for paved roads at all they make you watch in awe and see life outside that stupid self absorbed box that we cling to harder than the dead stopped express way in 5oclock traffic. It’s soo worth giving your keys over for the experience. .

@@redwood9120 doesn't get much more illogical than this.

@@682logan yep Mushrooms will save us all

Tbf I doubt that ants really have much self awareness, if any.

These things evolves efficiently. There's no efficiency in mercy so that's not something parasites considers. Doubt they're that aware to understand mercy.

Fitting for Dr Bright

@@Cool20xis Well in the video it shows that ants clean eachother off from infections and even take dead infected away from the population, so they may have a good measure of self awareness, at least to the extent of understanding/protecting their health and survival. I would assume they know exactly whats happening unfortunately

@@kylekamins6034 That’s not awareness, that’s natural selection. Tell me, what do you think happened to the ant colonies that didn’t clean each other off and take away infected?

It’s a fair way to increase engagement on a video

A fongus

Too late

Sus

Her- amogus

s-sssu-ssu...

Amogus

A fongus

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You are looking rather.... SUS

The How To, in Zombie Philosophy, Lesson 101.. set the hook.

It turns the roach into a zombie

Face hugger!,

And I hope nature destroys all humans ruthlessly in the most brutal way

We are supposed to be part of nature.

@@HowIsAsh lmao i highly doubt Hitler wanted the world to be destroyed

@@vincentlee7359 do you hate humanity?

@@vincentlee7359 There's a greater chance of us destroying ourselves before nature ever does.

And speak to the parasitic eggs kept at super frozen temperatures until it, along with other machinations, is inserted into warming human beings…. and then hatches, which has been shown by prominent scientists via nano spectrometry. Yes. I’m speaking of that.

@@warmwoolsoxgood4559 Ephesians 6: 12? 2 Corinthians 4: 4?

@WarmWoolSox Good you gotta expand on that. Sounds crazy and interesting.

@@jwlafferty yes, cause it could be... morgellons! 🤔

you could wish for it, but i cant see how you would expect it when the title says cordyceps fungus

Lmfao if you’ve played, then thats exactly what goes on. You can hear an infected woman sobbing as she’s eating her friend, she even gags and pukes in her mouth but the fungus keeps forcing her to eat. Lmao if you ever decided to just beat the infected up in that game bare-handed you can hear them scream in pain and plead for mercy/death 😂

@@mftripz8445 no shit sherlock that's obvious

@@mftripz8445 TFW

Alot like headcrabs from Half-Life

@@mftripz8445 that's only true for the infected in the early stages, once they become clickers and so on the person inside is lost

In those cases, death is definitely a mercy.

@@thefmehnater yeah, plus in those cases, they want someone to end their nightmarish existence.

Seems like Possession rather than conversion

i mean its a predacesor of both fauna and the flora, and amazingly it was not even identified as its unique kingdom until 1970! it was always grouped with plants, but its more like animals than plants and far older than both.

I commented the same

Most people get toxoplasma gondii from contaminated food rather than from cats. And even then it's usually from cats who roam outdoors or those that eat raw contaminated meat. Full time indoor cats are fine. Here's how humans usually get infected with toxoplasma gondii (from CDC website): • Eating undercooked, contaminated meat (especially pork, lamb, and venison) or shellfish (for example, oysters, clams or mussels). • Accidental ingestion of undercooked, contaminated meat or shellfish after handling them and not washing hands thoroughly (Toxoplasma cannot be absorbed through intact skin). • Eating food that was contaminated by knives, utensils, cutting boards and other foods that have had contact with raw, contaminated meat or shellfish. • Drinking water contaminated with Toxoplasma gondii. • Accidentally swallowing the parasite through contact with cat feces that contain Toxoplasma. This might happen by cleaning a cat’s litter box when the cat has shed Toxoplasma in its feces, or ingesting anything that has come into contact with cat feces that contain Toxoplasma; or • Accidentally ingesting contaminated soil (e.g., not washing hands after gardening or eating unwashed fruits or vegetables from a garden). • Mother-to-child (congenital) transmission. • Receiving an infected organ transplant or infected blood via transfusion, though this is rare.

Great,now how i can explain this to my cat?

Marine corps use this parasite as fier imprubment...the roden face up the cat ....the marine face up the enemy with fierless atitude..

wow the amount of people who didnt know this was satire

why so complicated plan? nature tends to be simple yet some cases it creates elaborate plans like this