@mangeurdenuage yeah, human analogies for nature are always lacking :)
@mangeurdenuage indeed. many of our problems as men stem from not considering us as parts of nature anymore.
(philosophical rambling follows)
i wonder how many of these phenomenon really are to be explained by science alone. i was pretty spiritual in my teens w.r.t. nature, then took a detour following the lure of technology and materalism in my 20s, only to find that materialism is pretty much bullshit and a very bleak outlook on things. there's no joy and love to be found in it.
present day it's pretty much clear to me that there are other things in this world, even inanimate things do have a spirit in a sense. regrettably this aspect has been pretty much lost in the west - as it was lost for me as well.
@mangeurdenuage
> Science is just observation cause and effects.
Anything can be explained by observation.
maybe, i have the vague feeling that some things don't like to be observed :)
> It's a balance, there's a base need for anything, be it social or environmental (meaning taking into account possession and surroundings) to be.
possessions and creating nice surroundings are fine! i was referring to the materialist mindset, the hubris that men can control himself, the world and other beings by means of science, regarding them as flesh-(or plant-)machines. the whole covid episode was a great example of this.
> Basic sanity has been lost for a while tbh.
Currently the alienation of our specie is so great that a part of the population is behaving in a parasitic manner instead of their natural symbiotic manner that permitted our specie to survive until now.
couldn't have put it better! :)
Fungal banking - lending nutriens (underground networks lending to each other... sounds like a human story also...)
@bonifartius @mangeurdenuage I liked this page of writing, the end of this story rounded off nicely as I wanted with "Depending on your point of view" that it might be...
... #bank style lending / " #banking " by fungi
...or hard-wired in all the players
...or merely for millions of years, shaped the world around us
...or even might get taken over by something else bigger
My added version may be:
...the sacrifice towards keeping the whole thing running for some hope or lack of ability to kill itself ( #Ants can if feel they are infected but I guess that is a physical illness)... while #evolution somehow has perfected / is perfecting all the roles perhaps so humans are very much like mushrooms or #fungi in a another form / version... but there goes perspective again... running wild to the forest!
Intriguing... as a free #mushroom myself π π
P.S
"Mycorrhiza" always a pain to write and even remember but will remember it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza
"A mycorrhiza is a #symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant. The term #mycorrhiza refers to the role of the #fungus in the plant's rhizosphere, its root system. #Mycorrhizae play important roles in plant nutrition, soil biology, and soil chemistry.
Any of various slender filaments that function as #roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc
+ Rhizome Noun
1. A horizontal #plant #stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
P.P.S Confusing page title / thumbnail title
Oh yeah almost didn't click link because of the auto-generated title mentioning "Occasional paper" which wasn't page of the page really... so at least would have been clearer as "Fungal banking" as the start of title and then "Occasional paper:" though I understand now what it might mean but at first didn't go together at all and confusing.
"(Occasional paper)" as brackets for example would make it less looking like it's part of article's text and some kind of category or filing description.