Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity
Neuro PhD here.<p>I haven't read the entire paper but this citations stands out:
> Fungi also exhibit trains of action-potential-like spikes, detectable by intracellular and extracellular recordings<p>Action potentials are the fundamental signaling mechanism used by neurons [1]. Think of them as an electrical signal that a cell actively propagates.  Lots of cells use electrical potentials for signaling; however, most of them spread gradually or passively. Action potentials on the other hand the cell actively expends energy to send information quickly.<p>Really cool to see convergent biology (my personal guess) here. I can only imagine what new things we're going to learn about fungi and mycelium in the next few decades. In all seriousness mushrooms COULD be conscious.<p>1 - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential</a>