According to the New York Post,
the British journal Royal Society Open
Science has published a surprising
and groundbreaking new study that claims that mushrooms can “talk” to each other.
And that the fungi even have “a bountiful vocabulary.”
The study was conducted by Andrew Adamatzky, a computer
science professor at the University of the West of England. The professor
asserted that his team of researchers “found that the ‘fungal language’ exceeds
the European languages in morphological complexity.” So, the “language”
of these fungal species is more advanced than French, more complex than
English, superior to Italian or German?
Professor
Adamatzky reportedly based his study on an analysis of the “electrical impulses
of four species of mushrooms: the enoki, split gill, ghost and caterpillar
fungus.” He accomplished this by “inserting tiny electrodes into the dirt
colonized by the mushroom’s hyphae — the threads that compose the
organism’s roots, known as mycelium.” He and his team “found that the
electrical spikes often occurred in clusters, mirroring human vocabularies and
employing up to 50 words.” He noted, “We demonstrate that distributions of
fungal word lengths match that of human languages.” The study found that “split
gills — a species that resides in rotting wood — generated the most complex
‘sentences’ of the four fungi.”
Scientists hypothesize that fungi “chat” to make their presence known to
other members of their cluster, much like wolves howling to alert the pack.
They theorize that mushrooms could also be trying to warn their fellow fungi
about potential threats, such as
the weather.
Really? What are they going to do about it? “Oh, shit, guys…we’re
about to get hailed on! Run for your—son of a bitch!”
Or, it could be that all this is bunk and fungal growth is not
particularly chatty or articulate. That there is no split gill in any rotting
wood anywhere that is quite as eloquent as, say, Winston Churchill.
Adamatzky himself admitted: “There is also another option — they are
saying nothing.” He added, “Propagating mycelium tips are electrically charged
and, therefore, when the charged tips pass in a pair of differential
electrodes, a spike in the potential difference is recorded.” So, there’s that.
Some researchers, like progressives, have a preposterous
propensity for projection. Can toadstools ponder their place in the universe? Could
ferns play chess or a compose sonatas if they just had opposable thumbs?
Where will this end? Progressive environmentalist whackos
may soon be demanding that it be made illegal to eat mushrooms. (Other than “magic”
ones, that is. Perhaps that is what Adamatzky and his researchers were doing
when they decided their study showed that mushrooms can talk.) I mean, aborting
babies is fine, but “murdering” a fungus in mid-oration is beyond the pale!
This could backfire on many progressives, though. It would
be a disaster for vegetarians and vegans if their fellow bleeding-heart
leftists decided that a growing number of plants and vegetables shouldn’t be
“killed” and eaten because they can talk, have feelings, or might vote Democrat
in the next presidential election!
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Mushroom, definition of: a fungal growth that typically
takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the
cap. (See also Adam Schiff, Brian Stelter)
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