[LIVE] Do fungi...think? 🧠🍄| Whose Gene 15 

It's from chemtrailing nono bots causing this

I thought this as well, not just of falling trees just the burns searing and breaking hyphae etc... think shiitake which also tends to fruit triggered by damage because it tends to mean opportunities

This is true, trees communicate through mushrooms to tell eachother things

Interestingly, when I bought spores for woodland mushrooms to help some saplings get established, they came on “bio-char”. I guess the forestry people know something about the burning part.

Lighting can change nitrogen gas N2 to forms way easier to be absorbed. Makes a hole lot of sense.

My guess is, that the fungus doesn't want it's fruit body to be eaten and maybe after a lightning strike there are less predators in the area. It would make especially sense, if it's a fast growing mushroom. Like, within hours. So the spores are distributed or potential toxins have reached satisfactory level before the predators return.

Thank you!

I've never seen an h in "fungi."

You serious or is that some sort of a joke? You didn’t speak till you were already 2 but your first word was 6 syllables and very difficult to pronounce. And you remember this happening Um IIIIIIITTE lol *coughcoughbs* lol you don’t gotta lie bud

@@evenodds8791 Nah you're right that the timing was wrong but those words were among the first I said - at least unless my parents are lying to me, but I don't know why they would. Probably had no clue what they meant though

I shouldn’t have said that, it’s very possible. Especially if they consciously avoided trying to get you to say ‘momma’ or ‘dada’ like most parents do. That would be pretty cool to have parents like that. My bad and best regards to you and your family

@@evenodds8791 No worries! Internet communication is tough and it does sound kinda unbelievable, you're all good :) and yeah my parents are pretty cool!

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Yeah it's kinda hard to research schrooms without finding LSD.

use the minus sign to exclude words from your Google search like -this- use quotation marks to search phrases “like this” use lsd to access other parts of your brain *like this*

​@@evenodds8791😂👍

On the fields where i walk my dog the grass is much lusher and greener in parts. I have noticed these are the parts where the mushrooms grow - they must be making nutrients available for the grass

@@piccalillipit9211 They do indeed transport nutrients from areas with a surplus and redistribute them to where they're needed. Many even produce hormones to affect the growth rate of plants. There are species of fungi that will only fruit if they have that symbiotic relationship and both the plant and the fungi are "feeling" healthy enough. Without fungi, life as we know it would be completely unsustainable. Really interesting stuff.

Also, as a physics boy, genetic engineering looks like magic to me.

yep!! reading that at the moment :)

@@njones420 I'm absolutely loving it! I'm also currently reading it. I'm on page 168.

@@shipwreck9146 I just started, my dad gave me his copy straight after I sent him this livestream (he's a retired toxicologist, and wrote his PhD on Aspergillosis). I loved that the slime-mould maze, and cordyceps are right at the start of the pics in the book...I wonder who else had been reading it :)

Stoned ape theory says earth commissioned mushrooms to allow for the advancement of animals in benefit of itself

I think it's a defense. Like a poison.

@@artembolshakov3901 i tried to find out as well but there doesnt seem to be a definitive answer yet. Certainly some speculation but no one has taken the question seriously. I know nicotine is a pesticide the tobacco plants will use.

This reminds me of the hypothesis that terpenes are meant to be a form of communication for the bacteria within plants. “Terpenes mediators of plant to plant communication” also earlier i saw someone put tardigrades under a microscope, they seemed to be communicating by passing each other with their bodies like ants but the persons hypothesis is that they were releasing scent compounds to communicate. If I were to hypothesize “what it means” haha I would say “to vibe, too love life.” Too many people rap about it healing them and connecting them to existence at large, having a spiritual awakening that specifically decentralizes their ego in favor of local interest, specifically towards inhuman nature like plants and soil. I can only imagine that it is a way of making other things “agreeable”, but I also think about the people that would antagonize and kill bears in order to access the DMT I in said bears pituitary gland, so I also can imagine that it is a time capsule of the mushrooms “last thoughts”. We bite into an apple and it’s delicious, the apple has a bit of a reason to be delicious (so we plant them) but in another sense it’s too secure their seeds, and nothing to do with us. Reminds me of a saying “does the flower know it is beautiful? Is it beautiful for the bee?”

It is my man!

This makes me so what defines a thought. Some sadder nihilists will reduce thoughts to chemical impulse responses, and I’m reminded that not all people have an internal narrative using spoken language as thought. One girl online tapped about a study where people looked at spider babies or embryos and noticed their eyes would go back and forth like humans do in REM sleep. She felt that they were dreaming. Some scientist define dreaming as pattern recognition/experience recombination/trying to guess what may happen by compiling experiences and outcomes. If they hunt, I feel like they have to think.

Wtf

Yeah, give it acid and lets see how it acts under bad trip

​@@aduantas experiments.

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@@aduantas we don't, it was a joke

@@aduantas that's a "deep"question.

I remember reading a sci-fi book from the 70s that had genetically engineered plants for terraforming another planet. (Not possible then) We're not too far off now from terraforming of any sort now. Timescale will still be in decades or centuries for terraforming but the technology is there. Pretty crazy, science is destroying SciFi slowly but surely. All that will be left of the genre will be regular fiction and maybe some fantasy.

Even if he was able to do this Mars still lacks a magnetosphere, but good ideas all around!

Also, i love fungus, so that makes me a fungus Thot

Or a pokemon professor.

Idk about them being fungi. You might find colonial organisms found in the ocean interesting, there is some apparent parallels in them and fungi and us.

Did you listen to this guy? He says brain activity and electrical activity in all different types of fungi are weirdly similar. They designed our brain at the very minimum but I am convinced our organs are fungi evolved species of fungi known as human organs. They’re learning more all the time and the connection will be proven

Our organs aren't fungi you hippie, lol. Our genes code for our organs.

fungi are the foundation our genes are built upon. Without them our dna is dormant

Our dna evolved from fungi, meaning we are part fungi. We are fungi that has developed additional abilities and necessities. We are fungal Frankensteins

A theory? So this has been extensively well tested and reviewed _already_? Can I see some of your paperwork?

@@cwtrain laymen's "theory", so a hypothesis, but it sounds plausible. Issue is testing something like that would take forever

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Or those locations are more resource-dense for unrelated reasons, so both the grass and the mushrooms grow more there

@@2ndpersonplural652 - I dont think so cos some of them are in fairy rings and nutrients dont normally work like that

The cordyceps fungi doesn't actually interact with the brain of the host at all, rather just through the muscles ... It's chemical, not electrical.

To the best of my understanding,, Cordyceps cannot make muscles fire in synchrony to produce climbing unless they trigger the muscles directly.

Unless you broaden your definition of fungus to be useless based on the context of this video, genetics would say a strong no. Our brain, nerve cells and organs are not fungi, they are animal tissue, lacking the typical cell wall that fungi have. If you wanna say it still counts because we share a common ancestor with fungi, then your use of the word "fungus" is meaningless and every animal is a fungus.

Not all fungi have cell walls, cryptomycota is a parasitic zoo spore. If testicles were a fungi, would they be considered a parasite, and sperm a zoo spore? When your host has a skeleton, it is at the very least inefficient to have rigidity built into every cell, if not then completely incompatible. Invertebrates exoskeletons are made out of chitin, the same protein fungi cell walls are made out of. Could some fungi have developed the ability to repurpose chitin to make shells, and after some success, produce bones then later blood from the calcium and iron they digest from rock?

@@evenodds8791 Why do you want everything to be fungus? Genetically speaking this holds no water. It's like you have this weird thing you want to be real and you look for every way to force it into being possible. Short answer for all of that: No, it's nonsense. Animals are related to fungi, but we are a different lineage and so are all our body parts since they are tissues proliferated from our stem cells which all have animal genome. It starts with an animal zygote, with animal genome, and that divides itself into everything else. This is well understood embryology and development. If you wanna force it and say that animals are fungi, that's like saying that frogs are starfish. It holds no meaning. What you're saying seems like someone trying to wildly guess things while completely ignoring all known science about it. There are mountains of research on the origin of arthropod exoskeleton as well as of chordate bones, and no, they have no connection between one another as they evolved completely separately from a soft animal ancestor (urbilateria).

What does inanimate mean to you?

Then lower the voltage?