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These networks boost their host maximizes the pooling of data while sharing the soil with several other
plants' immune systems. When a minimizing critical points upon organisms. Most habitats such as
fungus colonizes the roots of a plant, it which the system is dependent. It is termites and ants too draw support
triggers the production of believed that the similarity in form to from these fungal allies for
defense-related chemicals. These mycelium may not be merely sustenance.
make later immune system coincidence. The growth dynamics
responses quicker and more efficient, in these networks is the same, i.e. The termites cultivate fungal gardens
through "priming” phenomena. Internet, brain cells & mycelia. It's and build their mounds around them.
Simply by plugging into mycelia more likely that some unknown law These fungal gardens are responsible
network plants are more disease governs the way networks grow and for feeding the termites and their
resistant. change, from the smallest brain cells, larvae population inside the mound.
a few micrometers wide, to Ant hills are also known for their
These networks are considered the thousands of light years across fungas farms, the underground fungal
Earth’s natural Internet, connecting galaxies. crops in anthills fuel their complex
all the green across the planet. The society, making it sustainable and
Internet is simply an archetypal form, At micro levels, there is a carnival of resistant to diseases and pests.
the inevitable consequence of a activity that happens within each
previously proven evolutionary strand of mycelia mat underneath.
model, which is also seen in the These fungal fabrics run through the
human brain, i.e. the neural network. top few inches of practically all
The design in its web-like structure landmasses supporting life and

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