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Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by lr4444lr on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:57PM (#28411703)
This is a very good point, but what alternative line in the sand do you draw? I would personally set the bar pretty high to showing purposeful control of behavior that is not the direct result of an evolved organism or species survival instinct, i.e., eating, fighting, fleeing, and mating doesn't count. Resourceful looking for food could count, as could certain camouflage maneuvers during flight, or multi-member hunting and defense, and all tool use. Definitely deception to win mates
Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by colechristensen on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:36PM (#28411860)
"Intelligence" might be defined as requiring at least an internal abstracted ability to represent the world around which is not innate or hard-coded into biological mechanisms.