Fun fact: That part of the mushroom is not the mushroom itself, just a temporary part of it made only to spread spores, and mushrooms have no nervous system, so there is no problem with doing this to them, cutting of that part won't matter to the mushroom.
Man, this is so interesting. When I woke up today I really wasn't expecting to experience mushrooms controlling synths. I'm really grateful to live in a world with people who have interests that involve being curious and creative.
Bloody geniuses who take a fuck ton of shrooms one day and come up with the next best thing since sliced bread...urm or shall i say sliced shrooms... urm... I'll see myself out.
I mean it's not a mushroom playing a synth by any means.. it's a human programming a synth to be activated by a mushroom. Mushrooms can't play synths. This is silly.
As he slices it you hear the disturbance, and then the rhythm skips a bit as the once smoothly connected segments misfire over eachother, then begin losing connection entirely as he begins pulling it away, like hearing radio signals echo out in to an empty communication field, no other place to receive it but the ether it fades out in to. HEARING the energy makes this a whole new game when understanding non verbal / non communicative life
Seriously. After a piece is cut, it's like you can hear the absence of what was previously signals being sent throughout the mushroom, now being lessened to half of that signal as the detached part no longer responds 😔
you can sorta hear/tell that the mushroom is pinging the missing parts of the network and getting no response, i may ne very wrong but listening to the networks activity is fascinating
i know mushrooms work differently to humans but imagine if an alien was cutting up a human and thought their screams was them trying to “ping the missing parts of the network”
Mushrooms don’t go through photosynthesis at all, they require only decaying material in nature, they don’t have roots or seeds or leaves. Animals and fungi are sister groups in nature, while plants have a different evolutionary lineage. Animals and fungi have similar protein structures that bacteria and plants don’t have. Therefore animals and fungi are each other’s closest relatives.
Shroom when nothing is happening: *weird dubstep noise* Shroom when it gets touched: *more weird dubstep noises* Shroom when it gets cut in half: *EMERGENCY DUBSTEP NOISE*
I really appreciate the fact that you mentioned this was utilized for food, etc. afterwards. I was literally asking myself this and you came through with the answer in the description. Excellent videos. Don't stop.
I wonder if the changes in sound are actually the fungus reacting to stimulation, or just electrical impulses from your hand interfering with that of the mushroom's.
This has been messing with me, i don't understand, I see the electrodes and I think to myself how are they picking up the mushroom talking, wouldn't it just be how electrons are moving over the surface n shit, not the actual "voice" of the mushroom.
@@edglosser7315 Living organisms produce electrical impulses, at the smallest level that is how most life functions, it's the reason why your muscles constrict when stimulated by electricity. Sharks and some other marine predators are actually able to see this electrical activity.
It sounds so distressing, it sounds like a siren almost. Also I heard lion mane's mushrooms prevent dementia, which is ironic because this sounds like something straight out of Everywhere at The End of Time
I feel this is kinda like the brain , when it gets damaged any semblance of rythm and balance goes out the window , the activity is sporadic and significantly weekend after a blow only exception being the few moments during and after a blow during which the activity rises as to show that something is happening
Maybe that was the lions mane climaxing sexually as its spores are being spread. Then at the end its just really relaxed. I doubt that mushroom wants to just sit there and never be interacted with I guess is my feeling.
Brains have no feeling either, which is why you can do brain surgery while someone's awake. You'd have the same electric stuttering responses. So this video isn't proof the mushroom is in pain.
I gotta say... vibe wise I felt bad watching this. Not judging at all, just sharing my experience. The tones became more erratic, and never went back to a former pattern. Fear and anxiety seemed to eminate, musically it's obviously very cool and fun to zone out to.
@@starbepus5434 It's not "pain" like how we experience it. It's just the electrical signals of the mushroom changing as some of those connections get severed. It's like a brain without the consciousness. When a part is taken off, the mushroom now needs to reroute a bunch of severed connections to make it whole again.
Its absolutely earthbound how advanced technology has gotten, we went from water cogs to freaking mushroom sound synthesizers When people make a space elevator, just say hi to this.
WOW! Turn on captions. you can hear it say "oh" "um" "uh" quite often. It also mentions running before being cut. It also starts being sarcastic after it was cut/towards the end of the video by saying "wow" and "great" LOL! Epic vid Myco! Edit: It also says "hmm" whilst being cut, which is creepy lol
@@simonasimonah Fungi don't have nervous systems, so they can't feel pain. BUT, it's cool to hear the signal changes when a piece is cut off. It knows that it was cut off or modified in some way, but it doesn't "feel" any particular way about it.😁
@@simonasimonah they don’t have a brain which is used to prices information, and even if they did have a brain or another processing unit, they don’t have nerves
But who says one needs a nervous system to feel pain? And what is pain exactly? Just because we function that way doesn't mean there are no other ways. Nothing against you all by the way!! I'm just so annoyed by scientist putting their own species in the centre of everything. That's exactly the reason why for many hundrets of years animals were not seen as sentient beings, which is only now slowly being recognised to be untrue (2 months ago animals were declared to be sentient beings in the UK) and I still believe we underestimate other species and what they are capable of, since many humans, unfortunately, are arrogant and ignorant. A few years ago we found out that trees "communicate" with each by using the fungi network in the soil. A species that is so connected and communicative may also have the ability to feel pain. Of course, I hope they don't, since that would mean they suffer before being harvested but it's still a possibility and it's another reason to treat nature with respect, no matter what.
It doesn't hurt it because it's a temporary reproductive organs that he's cutting so just rot off and turn into mush and they have no nervous system it was just getting stimulated by The Cutting
Definitely the electric signals was it calculating how to continue to keep its self sustainable and because it’s a fungus and has been around longer then almost any other living thing on earth it’s ability to adapt in many conditions and have so many species doing the decay process no wonder it’s soul would sound so complex. Absolutely fascinating 🍄
