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Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by DonHopkins on Saturday September 04, 2021 @10:18AM (#28415307)
Never underestimate the behavioral complexity of rocks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones

>Sailing stones (also called sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks) are part of the geological phenomenon in which rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal intervention. The movement of the rocks occurs when large sheets of ice a few millimeters thick and floating in an ephemeral winter pond break up on sunny days. Frozen during cold winter nights, these thin, floating ice panels are driven by wind and shove rocks at speeds up to 5 meters per minute.

The three types of pet rocks are: ingenius, sentimentalary, and anthropomorphic.

I invented and implemented a pie menu remote control touch screen interface on the PocketPC for sending commands to pet rocks (and it also works with many feral rocks):

Pet Rock Remote Control:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG0FAKkaisg&ab_channel=DonHo...

The essential key to successfully training happy and obedient pet rocks is to repeatedly and consistently give them commands they can perform well, like "Sit", "Stay", "Play Dead", "Roll Over", "Gather Moss", and lots of positive reinforcement immediately after they obey what you tell them to do: "Good Rock!"

Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence by caycep on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:50PM (#28473885)
I need to look this up, but there was an geology/astrobiology faculty at Caltech looking at the computation abilities of certain crystal formations.