News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence. Parent comment

Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by chubot on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:30PM (#28409016)
Michael Pollan talks about this in a few of his books. Some cultures are more mycophobic (USA), and some are more mycophilic (Russians, I would say Chinese as well). I think you can attribute some of it to whether there are many poisonous mushrooms in that culture's land area!

I googled and found related quotes:

https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/05/21/berkeley-talks-transcri...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by filoeleven on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:43PM (#28410259)
Knowing your local species is super important. Apparently lots of poisoning cases in the (western?) US is because one of the toxic species looks a lot like an edible species in Asia.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by samstave on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:35PM (#28410621)
Im literally sitting here with "THE AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN MUSHROOMS" - And I am still terrified and amazed with them.
[ Parent | on HN ]