Fungal sentences are slightly more complex than English, slightly less complex than Russian.
If they have the ability to receive and process information from their environment
It really depends on how you define “process”. Plants arguably receive and process information. I wouldn’t call that intelligence though.
plants for sure do take in and process information, and perform some computations, but yeah i think the key thing is whether or not their way of processing information results in an experience of being alive, and i don’t think it does. while i think the set of possible experiences is much more diverse than the subset that looks like our own and has familiar elements like “a sense of self” or “a sense of the present moment” i still find it unlikely that plants experience much of anything. i just don’t think they have enough interconnectivity. maybe a mycorrhizal network joining a bunch of plants would get there.
i still find it unlikely that plants experience much of anything
Yes, but insects might not either. It’s a super fuzzy line that could be drawn just about anywhere.
i mean at a certain point you gotta make an obvious comparison and define limits. if ants or lowly insects are bad to eat, is a fungus on the same level of intelligence as one?
If ants or lowly insects are bad to eat
They aren’t bad to eat, besides maybe not tasting great.
