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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by xhkkffbf on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:22AM (#30933089)
How many bits per hour do solitary animals like cougars or hawks convey? I agree that whales sing endless, perhaps even annoying other whales with their wails. But many animals don't seem to even hit one bit per day.
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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by idiotsecant on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:41AM (#30933400)
What do you mean? There is an extremely information dense processing network inside each of those animals. I wasn't making a comment on the information density of their interface, but their processing itself
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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by xhkkffbf on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:59PM (#30937975)
I think the paper measures the communication through the electric field. So it's fair to compare that to the amount of communication from the solitary animals, right? I'm not measuring their overall computation that they apply going through their day. And I also submit it may be hard to know just how much computation the fungus does when it's not communicating.
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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by idiotsecant on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:05PM (#30938565)
The analogue here is a neural network, not a bird squawk.
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