I love mushroom science (also mushroom fiction and horror (The Last of Us, but also Jeff VanderMeer's books). It's also sometimes disturbing, but there's just so much potential there. Anyway, this is both cool and kind of disturbing, my favorite kind of science story.
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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 6 Sep
This is cool. It seems like the robot is responding to the mushroom's activity rather than the mushroom controlling the robot with intent.
I was hoping the mushroom learned to control the robot in pursuit of some goal. Maybe that's where this research leads.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 6 Sep
biohybrid machine sounds pretty cool, does make me uneasy too
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 6 Sep
Researchers have also recently found a way to facilitate bio-computers, as in: computers made out of some particular type of cells, which, connected in a particular way, are 1000's of times more efficient and capable than the silicium used today.
There was also a part that covered how organs could be changed with the above, and how a PoW and blockchain-type of architecture could be introduced which would enable the organ in question to constantly verify that it functions as it should, practically rendering it self-observing.
Hm, if only I had saved the article... Must've been something from scientias I think...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DuncanCaryPalmer 10 Sep
Ever read "The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet" by Eleanor Cameron?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81mlEaR8YuL._SY522_.jpg
A great read when I was a boy... I wouldn't mind reading it again.😆
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