Fungal ‘Brains’ Can Think Like Human Minds, Scientists Say — Popular Mechanics
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Fungal ‘Brains’ Can Think Like Human Minds, Scientists Say — Popular Mechanics
Fungi are capable of mind control. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is an fungus which infects carpenter ants and turns them into zombies, hijacking their brains and bodies for the bidding of its fungal master. An infected ant will leave its nest, chomp down on a leaf, and remain there until death. Days later, a mushroom will pierce out of the ant's sku... See more
Science finds it hard to decipher the mysteries of the mind largely because we lack efficient tools. Many people, including many scientists, tend to confuse the mind with the brain, but they are really very different things.
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The control of the thinking machine is perfectly possible. And since nothing whatsoever happens to us outside our brains, since nothing hurts us or give us pleasure except within our brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on inside the mysterious brain is patent… people complain of the lack of the power to concentrate, not... See more
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It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have been minds to manipulate.
Neuroscientists now think of the brain as an ever-changing ecosystem crackling with electrochemical energy from which our thoughts, emotions, and intentions arise, rather than a collection of blinking neural islands.