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Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by billiam on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:27PM (#28411272)
Are viruses alive? What about prions? Self-replicating clay molecules? Read up.
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Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by Jweb_Guru on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:03PM (#28411436)
That's pedantry, the point is that both free-living bacteria and fungi are very firmly on the "alive" side of that gray area.
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Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by mtqwerty on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:36AM (#28412949)
If you hadn't said read up at the end of this, it would've been a helpful comment.

You clearly have read up based on your other posts but being a jerk to people who aren't as read up as you won't make you any happier.

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