A unique research has shown that mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 "words"

    Andrew Adamatzky, professor at the University of Bristol (UK), found that mushrooms also "talk", using electrical impulses often grouped into trains that form real "fungal phrases"

    Mushrooms also speak and they use up to 50 "words": it is not science fiction, it is a discovery by a professor at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) who analyzed some electrical impulse trains, demonstrating that their function is precisely that of communication.





    The work was conducted by carrying out a mathematical analysis of the electrical signals that the mushrooms really seem to exchange, identifying patterns that present a surprising structural similarity with human language.

    Previous research had already suggested that fungi conduct electrical impulses through long, underground filamentous structures called 'hyphae' in a similar way to how nerve cells transmit information in humans. Today's discovery is therefore only a confirmation.

    Andrew Adamatzky has also shown that the frequency of activation of these impulses increases when the hyphae of wood-digesting fungi come into contact with precisely wooden blocks, increasing the possibility that fungi will use this "electrical language" to share information about food or injuries with distant parts of themselves, or with partners connected with hyphae such as trees.

    To reach this conclusion, the professor analyzed the electric peak patterns generated by four species of fungi: enoki, splitgill, ghost fungus and caterpillar, by inserting tiny microelectrodes into substrates colonized by their mosaic of hyphae threads.

    We don't know if there is a direct relationship between spike patterns in mushrooms and human language. Maybe not - Adamatzky explained to The Guardian - On the other hand, there are many similarities in information processing in living substrates of different classes, families and species. I was just curious to make a comparison

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    But there is more.

    A unique research has shown that mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50

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    We found that the peaks are often grouped into trains - reads the abstract of the paper - [...] we group the peaks in words and provide alinguistic complexity analysis and information about the peak activity of the fungus. We show that the distributions of fungal word lengths correspond to those of human languages.



    In fact, the researcher noted that these peaks often clustered in trains of activity, similar to vocabularies up to 50 words, and that the distribution of these "fungal word lengths" closely matched those of human languages.

    The most likely reasons for these surges of electrical activity are the maintenance of the integrity of the mushrooms, as do wolves that howl to maintain the integrity of the pack. And not only.

    ? Unconventional computing Professor @adamatzky has discovered that mushrooms might be able to communicate with each other using their own language.

    Read more here ? https://t.co/cp6qktiaSR

    — UWE Bristol (@UWEBristol) April 13, 2022

    Of course, the scientific community would like to see more evidence before they are willing to accept these communications as a form of language.

    This new paper detects rhythmic patterns in electrical signals, of a similar frequency to nutrient pulses, '' says Dan Bebber, associate professor of biosciences at the University of Exeter and member of the British Mycological Society's research committee on fungal biology. 'interpretation as a language seems somewhat enthusiastic and would require much more research and critical hypothesis testing before seeing' Fungus' on Google Translate


    The research was published in Royal Society Open Science.


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    Sources: The Guardian / Royal Society Open Science / University of Bristol / Twitter  

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