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On Earth the minimal conditions (or a trigger signal) to allow them manifestate * into brain of the planet networking different kinds of organisms just didn't happen yet (viruses messaging with trials - so far so good, and.. humans) - but we, humans, are exterminating smaller proto-brains (forests, like Amazon) in their infancy instead (?) (it's similar transition like into being a colony of specialized cooperating c…
On Earth the minimal conditions (or a trigger signal) to allow them manifestate * into brain of the planet networking different kinds of organisms just didn't happen yet (viruses messaging with trials - so far so good, and.. humans) - but we, humans, are exterminating smaller proto-brains (forests, like Amazon) in their infancy instead (?) (it's similar transition like into being a colony of specialized cooperating c…
Looks more to me like self identification, and natural selection. That’s not a lot of wood for 120 days. This fungus is trying to maximize its chances by reaching out as far as it can to find more wood before it dies of starvation. Away from where it has already searched.
When you describe the fungus as trying to do something, you just ascribed intelligence to it.
Things get more confusing when I talk about how fungi are the original farmers. But I don’t mean that anthropomorphically. I just mean farmer as “an entity that farms”
Susanne Simard, who knows trees better than fungi, tries to ascribe a sense of fairness to how forest food web fungi share and disburse minerals, sugars and water. Personally I just see osmotic pressure. Not as the only driver (see also arbitrage), but the one responsible for most of that “fairness”.