living computers powered by mushrooms

[scruffy]

I kid you not! Here they are:

Shiitake mushrooms can become memristors.

Scientists Create Living Computers Powered by Mushrooms

What if living organisms could perform some of the tasks handled by silicon chips? New research suggests fungal systems can exhibit memory-like electrical behavior, opening the door to unconventional, low-energy computing architectures. Fungal networks could offer an alternative to the tiny metal

scitechdaily.com

 

[toobfreak]

I kid you not! Here they are:

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Shiitake mushrooms can become memristors.

Can we smoke 'em? Pass the bong, man.


Power to the mushroom.

 

[scruffy]

As a biophysicist I'm very interested in these mushrooms! Which molecule exactly is causing this memristive behavior? Could we extract it and put it on a chip? Because this way instead of 4 wires we could have millions.

 

[scruffy]

Here: Memristive Ion Channel-Doped Biomembranes as Synaptic Mimics - PubMed

 

[scruffy]

Ha ha - hot off the press.

An end-to-end memristive hardware system based on single-spike coding for human–machine interfaces - Nature Electronics

A neuromorphic system that consists of vanadium oxide memristors for the accurate encoding of information as single spikes, and hafnium oxide/tantalum oxide memristors with programming strategies to limit conductance drift, can reliably perform computations using efficient single-spike coding...

www.nature.com

They're starting to figure it out. It's all about the spike times.

This is pretty impressive stuff they're talking about - "real-time vehicle control from surface electromyography".

The memristor is a fascinating device. In theory it can't exist, yet it does. Leon Chua is the guy usually credited with inventing it but actually Bernard Widrow conceived it 12 years earlier.

If you have a memristive molecule inside a biological membrane, you can transition the neuron into a chaotic state. The membrane ends up looking very much like Chua's circuit:

The conductances can be made explicit with diodes, as follows, where the device in the right is an active impedance converter.

This circuit is nonlinear and chaotic, although it's still an oscillator. Its attractor looks like this:

The inductance across the membrane can be provided by a host of biological molecules, including actin and other proteins such as those found in myelin sheaths.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I kid you not! Here they are:

View attachment 1207144

Shiitake mushrooms can become memristors.

Scientists Create Living Computers Powered by Mushrooms

What if living organisms could perform some of the tasks handled by silicon chips? New research suggests fungal systems can exhibit memory-like electrical behavior, opening the door to unconventional, low-energy computing architectures. Fungal networks could offer an alternative to the tiny metal

scitechdaily.com

In this case, yes, schroom and post!

 

[scruffy]

lmao

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Mushrooms are smart! Who knew?

It looks like you guys get the psychedelic kind. I usually get the other kind - once I got surprised though. That's when I learned to respect the mushroom.

 

[1srelluc]

Huh, enslaving mushrooms.

If I hooked up a beefsteak mushroom, do you think it could alert me when a big buck passes by....Sort of like a game cam?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

lmao


Mushrooms are smart! Who knew?

It looks like you guys get the psychedelic kind. I usually get the other kind - once I got surprised though. That's when I learned to respect the mushroom.

Yup, that's the one

 

[scruffy]

The largest mushroom church has 130,000 members.

It's in Oakland.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5686773/psychedelic-mushroom-church