Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence
by nine_k on Saturday September 04, 2021 @12:45AM
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Good! How can we find out if an organism is capable of symbolic processing?
Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence
by DonHopkins on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:28AM
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Feed it some letters and see what happens...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaD7AwPC5Pw&ab_channel=Sesam...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtb2EKGBNr8&ab_channel=Sesam...
Even unicellular ones has to do it, that is what a complex adaptive system that wants to sustain its life-state has to do. But none of this is symbolic processing the way humans are capable of. Reducing intelligence to mere adaptivity simply makes it a useless term.