• LordGimp@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    It’s always funny to me how people eat up the concept of a distrubuted neural network in tech but scoff at the same idea applying to something like a tree or a fungus.

    Pando is the largest organism by area, and the Humungous Fungus is the largest by mass. The idea that those organisms don’t “think” in some way is laughable.

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      2 months ago

      because humans invent things from scratch that nature has already created and optimzed, it’s why we’re seeing a lot of optimizations on current tech that comes from nature itself.

      It’s a really weird problem to have.

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        2 months ago

        Go find that video of a slime mold optimizing Japan’s rail system by finding oats in a maze

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      2 months ago

      It always seems lime some excuse in a counter response by vеgаns

      The number of times I’ve responded to them telling them that plants probably process pain in a different way to us has always been shot down by them

      Tell them that brains extremely simplified are just on and off responses to certain stimuli / information just like plants have specific reponsonses to stimuli and computers having 1’s and 0’s that respond to information

      A mycelium network could be counted as a brain