- However odd it may seem, fungi are evolutionary closer to animals than to plants.by inglor_cz - 2 weeks ago
- A book released earlier this year (1) asking about whether humanity is guaranteed to avoid losing the war against fungal pathogens. It turns out that all kinds of fungus generally get more aggressive in hotter climates.by OgsyedIE - 1 week ago
So, this research that their adaptability exceeds slime molds isn't reassuring.
- I mean, “learns”? They took an existing biochemical/electrical activity pattern and wired it up to trigger servo motors. The mushroom did not learn anything.by skywhopper - 1 week ago
- As with any "New York Times Journal of Medicine"-type article, the author of the article didn't understand/chose to inflate the actual research - what they did was create a system that captures the fungus's electrical activity and used those pulses to arbitrarily assign movement rules to the robot. There's no suggesting of the fungus controlling the robot - merely a showcase that we have a system to capture the electrical activity of a mushroom. For all intents and purposes we have a robot with a motor instead of any other indicator - could've been a monitor showing a graph.by istultus - 1 week ago
- Here is the original source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39196952/by blendergeek - 1 week ago
- I propose we call these engineers Fungineersby dylanlacom - 1 week ago
- Better title would “random input enables robot to wiggle; mushroom used as random generator.”by shermantanktop - 1 week ago
- This research appears to have low fungibilityby caesia - 1 week ago
- I'll show you exactly where this folly leads.by andrewstuart - 1 week ago
Putting fungus in charge of a robot body leads directly to the creation of the Daleks and then the only way to fix that is to get Doctor Who to destroy the lab growing the mushrooms, as shown here:
https://youtu.be/RUNLK2oN5c4?t=2212
Humanity is making a terrible mistake with the "mushroom controls robot" thing, it will not end well - likely with us all cringing in the smoking ruins of civilisation whilst mushroom Daleks search for the survivors amongst the rubble.
Almost certainly.
- I thought we had invented skroderiders for a second.by bitwize - 1 week ago
- I'm not surprised. Because I like to try out many things in order to gain firsthand perspectives, I tried veganism for a year back in 2003. It was the first time I grilled a portobello mushroom. My system was so completely cleared out of any animal products after many months (including honey) that I was absolutely shocked when I bit into its meaty flesh and was overwhelmed with a sentient connection that went beyond a simple similarity in texture, as it was very obvious to be animal in nature. As I was working at the San Diego Natural History museum at the time, I consulted with the librarian and found that mushrooms do indeed carry a combination of both plant and animal DNA.by Suizou - 1 week ago
- Learns to crawl isn't accurate but it raises interesting questions about sentience. A better title would be “humans learn to build robot that uses mycellium's bio-chemical reactions to stimuli to pilot a robot”…Kinda long though and not really eye catching ;)by mikeyinternews - 1 week ago
- Step 2, take decapitated cadavers and replace head with mushroom. If it turns into half life, we win!by mensetmanusman - 1 week ago
- Coincidently I happened to listen to a bbc radio programme on mushrooms which talked about cordyceps and how it infects ants. The new (to me) research was that the fungus doesn't really infect the brain, more the rest of the body and its muscles. Cordyceps more or less puppeteers the ants body to get it to do what it wants in very precise ways, like making the ant climb to a suitable height and then bite into a particular part of the plant's leaf. All of this from a fungus.by __temp__2387 - 1 week ago