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If fungus has a language, it means we can 'talk' to it. So long as we can put electricity in, and get different electric signals out, we have a sort of interfa
by gigaflop 5y ago
If fungus has a language, it means we can 'talk' to it.
So long as we can put electricity in, and get different electric signals out, we have a sort of interface.
If they're sentient, then wow, great. If not, we can probably work out the right signals and species to use in growing a mushroom-based Turing machine.
- nerdponx 5y agoIt's not quite "computation", but apparently you can wire a mushroom up to a modular synthesizer and get something resembling music out of it. Someone has a very entertaining YouTube channel full of this content: https://www.youtube.com/c/MycoLyco https://www.youtube.com/c/MycoLyco. The titles are great too, like "Reishi Talks To Lions Mane About Life In a Bag" (posted 4 days ago).