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I am kind of partial to the pan-psychic notion of all plants and animals who are living having something that could resemble consciousness or at least an experi
by robotbikes 6y ago
I am kind of partial to the pan-psychic notion of all plants and animals who are living having something that could resemble consciousness or at least an experience of existing. It may not resemble the part of our consciousness that forms words and likes to project an ego into the world but perhaps the experiences we have while dreaming or non-verbally perceiving. I suspect that the experience of being a mycelium would be very alien to anything we can easily imagine. But this whole concept is best explored in science-fiction for now.
- fogihujy 6y agoThe idea that fungi would have rudimentary communication pathways isn't really that insane. That doesn't necessarily make it true, but it always strikes me as odd when people talk about plants, fungi and other non-animal life as if it wasn't life at all. The Xenofungus from the video game Alpha Centauri comes to mind.