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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a meme pic, so I'm just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it's the "mushroom" fruiting body that's doing anything in this research. It's almost certainly the mycelium or we're dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don't produce mushrooms at all.

Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah the reality is they essentially used mycelium as nerve fibers, but I was riffing on the headline. There was also certainly no learning going on. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019