Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Give us the tldr and maybe I'll suffer through another Joe Rogan "Experience".
Transcript:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-joe-rogan/1035-paul-stamets-L_uCGc1-s39/Excerpt: 1.4 billion years old the oldest multicellular organism in the fossil record today is as fungus and lava in South Africa 2.4 billion
00:23:18a fully-formed mushroom at who has its form was growing we were we separated from find a 650 million years old and other form longer than we had are formed by more than a billion years just pulled it up on the screen here so we can take a look at it from Brazil so this is the
00:23:41pause is still at the embassy you're familiar with the one that has just been published in the past they have a great name that's a tongue twister to pronounce this is gondwana agar ascites magnificence what do they do that they do that to make people make me feel stupid they don't have to know that name so so it looks better if you have a long sounding name before we had ours are Elders these are these are ancient organisms these are they related to the overlord under Lords of our ecosystem and I suspect and isley's neural networks have more neural Connections in my soil Master if they were a thousand acres and we have no brain they are actually accumulating knowledge and intelligence but I think that as time goes on I hope that we are able to interface with them because I think that there is a there is many benefits of us communicating with mycelium that can give us
00:24:41rapid responses to catastropika that's how they evolved and we're now the biggest walking catastrophe that I know I'm walking across the planet and we need to engage these fungal allies for the benefits that we need to put into played in order to prevent the loss of biodiversity it seems like a communication gap would be very hard to bridge this communication gap mean if we really did find a way to communicate in some form with mushrooms like the concept of language like you were talking about just the idea of Nature and intelligence and these words that we have that we have these up sort of concrete definitions and I had the don't really apply to some things that are very very confusing to us like the idea of fungal intelligence the idea that you could somehow or another understand the language that these think we were we don't even understand dolphin language right example of Japanese
00:25:41cover of this they there's a slime mold called physarum polycephalum and they had a slime mold is very very good at navigating through mazes and challenges I mean first of food wins conservation of energy is rewarded so they designed a nutrient basic a nutrient like maze replicating Tokyo and the Japanese subway system and so they started it was Tokyo and they put oats which is the nutritional Source they did not cleated what is on this basic and Agra map with all the major cities the nodes around Tokyo and they then make speechless nodes I had a piece of oat on them was a source of nutrition the main oat was where Tokyo was there
00:26:41watch a little bit and then they let the slime mold then grow and first-degree out randomly exploratory Lee you know just like you would do do if you were a hunter or something or hunting on the landscape looking for things and then after about 28 hours it reorganize itself in the most efficient way possible and reorganize the Japanese subway system in a more efficient manner than its design today
00:27:09that's the way they said not me not Paul stamets this is a demonstration of cellular intelligence so this is the tip of the iceberg
