The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence
This leans far too heavily on the word “intelligence” to describe the behavior of fungus. Yes indeed almost every organism reacts to the world around it, a good word for that is “alive”.  Intelligence requires a lot more than simple stimulus response and internal changeable state, much less consciousness or sentience.<p>Calling mushrooms intelligent appeals to a certain sort of person and publishing articles like this are just taking advantage of those people for their attention.<p>The behavior of fungi is interesting without having to project intelligence on to it.