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Humans create language through electrical impulses which course through our neurons.
Communication is universal in the animal kingdom, but plants and fungi pose a bit of a silent mystery.
As it turns out, they may communicate in language too.
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A new paper published inRoyal Society Open Sciencesuggests changes in fungi electrical potential indicate language.
Surprisingly, each species seems to have their own lexicon.
Fungi do not have nervous systems, but they do havemycelium networks.
Cordyceps militaris, which has an average of 8.9 spikes per word. (Photo: Andreas Kunze viaWikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 3.0)
This is a web of underground fungal material tying together trees and mushrooms in healthy forests.
He discovered they change with stimuli such as light, touch, and chemical shifts.
These spikes can be short or long.
For example, the oyster fungi have only two spikes of 2.6 minutes and 14 minutes long respectively.
Adamatzky then turned his attention to a select four species of mushroom.
These lexicons reached 50 words, but only 15 to 20 were used frequently by the fungi.
For now, the property of fungi will be useful for another purposecloaking a building in a biological supercomputer.
Fungi have fascinating properties of communication which seem to replicate language, a new study finds.
Cordyceps militaris, which has an average of 8.9 spikes per word.
