Somehow, for some reason, these remarkable mushrooms produce, in addition to spores, meanings in human minds.

Fungi constitute the most poorly understood and underappreciated kingdom of life on earth.

“This is one of the reasons why the communications of cephalopods are so difficult to crack: They don’t have a grammar or vocabulary. Everything is either local—learned on the fly over a short life span—or instinctive. Plus, they mix communications between colors, patterns, texture, and gesture. That would be a bit like communicating using speech,