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Scientist shows fungi are ‘mind-blowing’: they have memories, learn shapes, can make decisions and solve problems, « You’d be surprised at just how much fungi are capable of. »


While it may sound like science fiction, this level of basal cognition is possible even in fungi, which created these shapes above.

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