Mental
Do Fungi Do Life Better?
Fungi don’t have brains, yet they solve mazes, share resources, and remember trauma. Their underground mycelial networks mimic neural pathways and adapt without a command center. Thinking might not require a mind — just clever, distributed living.
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The thinker
Mycologist of Mind & Matter
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of *Entangled Life*, a landmark book that redefined how we understand fungi. Trained at Cambridge with a PhD in tropical ecology, he’s known for blending science with philosophy to explore the intelligence of nature’s most overlooked organisms.
Based on Merlin Sheldrake on Fungi, the Mind, and the Self, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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