ArticleInterface focus2018
Towards fungal computer.
Article in Interface focus, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Associative conditioning in gene regulatory network models increases integrative causal emergence.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Electrical signaling in fungi: past and present challenges.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Electrical integrity and week-long oscillation in fungal mycelia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- There's Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded, Multi-Scale Machines.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Mushroom data creation, curation, and simulation to support classification tasks.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Towards Embedded Computation with Building Materials.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
We propose that fungi Basidiomycetes can be used as computing devices: information is represented by spikes of electrical activity, a computation is implemented in a mycelium network and an interface is realized via fruit bodies. In a series of scoping experiments, we demonstrate that electrical activity recorded on fruits might act as a reliable indicator of the fungi's response to thermal and chemical stimulation. A stimulation of a fruit is reflected in changes of electrical activity of other fruits of a cluster, i.e. there is distant information transfer between fungal fruit bodies. In an automaton model of a fungal computer, we show how to implement computation with fungi and demonstrate that a structure of logical functions computed is determined by mycelium geometry.
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