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Tim

@cornflakeboy

Way beneath every step you’ve ever taken and every step you will take is this thing called mycelium. Long threads of fungi that grow one cell at a time, branching and re-branching, growing in every direction. They even grow three-dimensionally.

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WormOne

@wormone

mycelia in a forest do link the trees in it, root to root, not only supplying them with nutrients, but serving as a medium that conveys information about environmental threats and allows trees to selectively send nutrients to other trees in the forest.fn5

Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Every tree has multiple options for fungi, and it is only when the last of these passes away that it is really in trouble.

Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller

Luke Beard

@beard

Experiments with slime molds have demonstrated these organisms can navigate mazes in search of food—sensing its location and then growing in that direction. The mycelia in a forest do link the trees in it, root to root, not only supplying them with nutrients, but serving as a medium that conveys information about environmental threats and allows tr

Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

The stereotypical example of a bottom-up organization is a slime mold. A number of different independent actors make individual decisions, leading to complex emergent behavior in the colony.

Alex Komoroske • Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

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