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The gradual diversity of human networks follows and maps across fungal diversity in urban niches. Root chatter and interface; mobile phone base station saprophytes decomposing dead office buildings. And again those patterns, fairy rings of plastic-caulked masts, exactly the same whether in the forest or city, the same influencing fields. The magnitude of the magnetic field falls off as the inverse cube of distance, an empty centre devoid of muscaria, no network, no signal. In this case, imagining the parallel, a truly underground (W.A.S.T.E) network. | The gradual diversity of human networks follows and maps across fungal diversity in urban niches. Root chatter and interface; mobile phone base station saprophytes decomposing dead office buildings. And again those patterns, fairy rings of plastic-caulked masts, exactly the same whether in the forest or city, the same influencing fields. The magnitude of the magnetic field falls off as the inverse cube of distance, an empty centre devoid of muscaria, no network, no signal. In this case, imagining the parallel, a truly underground (W.A.S.T.E) network. | ||
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===Radio mycelium=== | ===Radio mycelium=== | ||
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After Franz Mesmer, there is a shift from animal magnetism to mycelial/ | After Franz Mesmer, there is a shift from animal magnetism to mycelial/ | ||
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Electromagnetic means of this inter-species communication focuses primarily on either a change in electrical resistance within parts of the plant or fungus, exactly how much the plant cells resist the easy flow of a signal, or on the measurement of micro-voltages or electrical potentials between two points in the plant. Most vascular plants exhibit 2 classes of such signals, the rapid " | Electromagnetic means of this inter-species communication focuses primarily on either a change in electrical resistance within parts of the plant or fungus, exactly how much the plant cells resist the easy flow of a signal, or on the measurement of micro-voltages or electrical potentials between two points in the plant. Most vascular plants exhibit 2 classes of such signals, the rapid " | ||
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Plants and fungi sense, transform and adapt. They speak with each other and in this conversation acknowledge clear changes in the earth. On a mundane level becoming indicators of changes in soil chemistry, watchers of shifts in weather, observers of seasons and migratory transformation. The forest bed, a base of earth, decay and moss, turns over on itself in a sedimentary churn; the slow process of earth coding, working perhaps through and towards a “mind of mud", a starred mushroom mind swallowing the observer. salt crystal taste. entropy on the tongue. | Plants and fungi sense, transform and adapt. They speak with each other and in this conversation acknowledge clear changes in the earth. On a mundane level becoming indicators of changes in soil chemistry, watchers of shifts in weather, observers of seasons and migratory transformation. The forest bed, a base of earth, decay and moss, turns over on itself in a sedimentary churn; the slow process of earth coding, working perhaps through and towards a “mind of mud", a starred mushroom mind swallowing the observer. salt crystal taste. entropy on the tongue. | ||
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A mycorrhiza forms a symbiotic (generally mutualistic, | A mycorrhiza forms a symbiotic (generally mutualistic, | ||
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=== Further Reading === | === Further Reading === | ||
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* Radio Mycelium http:// | * Radio Mycelium http:// | ||
* Mycellial Photon Exchange InstRument http:// | * Mycellial Photon Exchange InstRument http:// | ||
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* Benz, E. The theology of electricity: | * Benz, E. The theology of electricity: | ||
* Smithson, R. Robert Smithson: The Collected Writtings. (University of California Press, 1996). | * Smithson, R. Robert Smithson: The Collected Writtings. (University of California Press, 1996). | ||
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