magic beneath the forests : science

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

The biggest organism in the world is a fungus which goes miles long. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus/

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Some of them will also make you high, but some will kill you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

and some will taste great on pizza!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The American mind cannot comprehend that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some will make you high, then kill you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Some taste great on pizza, gets you high and then kills you as a bonus.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So basically... I just ate a bag of fungi dicks?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

P. cubensis kinda looks like little circumcised penises anyway. At least before they open up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Have they got little foreskins in normal countries?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

yea

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Were you hoping for fun guy dicks?

[+] [email protected] -10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

That is what people sound like that have taken too many shrooms. Comes a bit too close to newage bullshit. "Life is the universe evolving to experience itself through you" and bullshit like that.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You sound like a sour lemon. I'd rather hang out with a hippie that thinks the universe is conscious than someone who slaps a paper tiger license to their low originality threshold posts. Just sayin.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I believe you haven't taken enough shrooms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Probably 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But it's cool.

Just don't go thinking it means anything other than nature is awesome.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just think there are better ways to say nature is awesome without adding mystics, new age stuff, or fantastical expressions to it. Then it starts turning into non-science.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I like those better ways too, but I'm me and you're you. I think the vulgarisation like in the op are good and useful as well. We're not talking about Deepak Chopra here, just a little mycological poetry.

I would use the word "special" rather than mystical, but the awesomeness of reality can often feel mystical. I think it's ok to play with that as long as you aren't making any serious claims, like we should order our social structure around fungi deity or something

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I feel exactly the same way as how you described it. I think the quote from OP about the universe experiencing itself actually originated from Carl Sagan, who is as scientific and atheistic as you could ask for. It's just a play on words.

And then you have the likes of Deepak Chopra, who is the most disingenuous woowoo-talking charlatan in existence. If he said something like that, he would mean it literally.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Are you giving out a license for all your posts? Are you following up on the usage or is it more of a symbolic act?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'll probably determine if it's symbolic when it turns up in some commercial AI.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Seems like the actions of a person who took too much acid and warped their own reality.

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