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"Mathematical analysis of the electrical signals fungi send to one another has identified patterns that bear a striking structural similarity to human speech... spikes often clustered into trains of activity, resembling vocabularies of up to 50 words" theguardian.com/science/2022โ€ฆ

Apr 7, 2022 ยท 2:07 AM UTC

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Everything is alive!
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Brain waves ๐Ÿ˜†
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This'll be like any of the 'animals use language' stories that the actual computational linguists, like Mark Liberman, will make short shrift of soon.
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I think we might know too much stuff