... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYPJza7N3SQ

You Still Think We Humans Are The Most Conscious Beings On Earth After Watching This? When we think of fungi, most of us picture mushrooms, those slightly mysterious, potentially poisonous denizens of dark, damp places. But a mushroom is just the fruit of the mycelium, which is an underground network of rootlike fibers that can stretch for miles. Paul Stamets calls mycelia the "grand disassemblers of nature" because they break down complex substances into simpler components. For example, some fungi can take apart the hydrogen-carbon bonds that hold petroleum products together. Others have shown the potential to clean up nerve-gas agents, dioxins, and plastics. They may even be skilled enough to undo the ecological damage pollution has wrought. Molds of fungi and slime run to decompose dead matter on the forest floor - In some jungles, fungal species outnumber plants in a proportion of 33 by 1. Stamets believes they have not just the ability to protect the environment but the intelligence to do so on purpose. His theory stems in part from the fact that mycelia transmit information across their vast networks using the same neurotransmitters that our brains do: the chemicals that allow us to think. In fact, recent discoveries Suggest that humans are more closely related to fungi than we are to plants. Almost since life began on earth, mycelia have performed important ecological roles: nourishing ecosystems, repairing them, and sometimes even helping create them. The fungi's exquisitely fine filaments absorb nutrients from the soil and then trade them with the roots of plants for some of the energy that the plants produce through photosynthesis. No plant community could exist without mycelia. I've long been a resident and defender of forests, but Stamets helped me understand that l've been misperceiving my home. I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi. "This world is in fact a living being endowed with Soul and intelligence... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related!" ~ Plato ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQMVu6FHLeY