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ArticleRoyal Society open science2024

Fungi as Turing automata with oracles.

Andrew Schumann, Andrew Adamatzky, Jerzy Król, Eric Goles

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Andrew SchumannDepartment of Cognitive Science and Mathematical Modelling, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland.
Andrew AdamatzkyUniversity of the West of England, Unconventional Computing Laboratory, Bristol, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1073-2662
Jerzy KrólDepartment of Cognitive Science and Mathematical Modelling, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland.
Eric GolesUniversity of Adolfo Ibáñez, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Santiago, Chile.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the article, we aim to understand the responses of living organisms, exemplified by mycelium, to external stimuli through the lens of a Turing machine with an oracle (oTM). To facilitate our exploration, we show that a variant of an oTM is a cellular automaton with an oracle, which aptly captures the intricate behaviours observed in organisms such as fungi, shedding light on their dynamic interactions with their environment. This interaction reveals forms of reflection that can be interpreted as a minimum volume of consciousness. Thus, in our study, we interpret consciousness as a mathematical phenomenon when an arithmetic function is arbitrarily modified. We call these modifications the hybridization of behaviour. oTMs are the mathematical language of this hybridization.

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PMID39493298
PMCPMC11528491

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