The People Who Believe Plants Can Talk - BBC

For years, people insist that talking to plants is beneficial. Well, there are some strange observations, enumerated by Chris Baraniuk, suggesting plants are trying to join the conversation. From anomalous clicks to actual words heard by investigators, there's a lot to be said for phytological sentience making even skeptics scratch their noggins. (For more on the subject, see the free special issue of EdgeScience on Sentient Plants.) But what about The Fungal Mind? Fungi aren't plants, nor are they animals. After all fungi absorb nutrients from other organisms, unlike plants which photosynthesize and their cell walls are made of chitin rather than cellulose, making them more like animals. Yet what's keeping a mushroom from having sentience or consciousness? Join Nicholas Money on the quest for mushroom intelligence and their particular peculiarities that puzzle scientists. And one thing to consider, perhaps when people ingest the genus Psilocybe and experience visions maybe those are the final message conveyed by the mushroom to the humans who harvested them. (CS)

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from THE ANOMALIST https://bbc.in/38GZFvS