From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 16:42:48 MDT
info@i2.to writes:
> Since we're out on a speculative limb, I once heard the astounding
>idea that vast mycelia networks under the Amazon rain forest, which
>seem to extend for 1000's of meters, might match or exceed the
>complexity of a human brain.
In what way? After all, a lot of cells will contain a lot of
complexity but might not think anything worthwhile. Fungi have never
struck me as specially creative.
But maybe we could design smart mycleia? Not necessary a hidden
internet, but maybe something one could plug into to check on or
regulate the local ecology.
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