mycelial logic
Mycelial logic" explores the potential of fungal mycelial networks to implement logical circuits and perform computational tasks by leveraging their unique electrical and chemical signaling capabilities.
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What is Mycelial Logic?
Fungal Networks as a Computing Platform:
Mycelial networks, the vast underground networks of fungal hyphae, are capable of complex information processing and distributed decision-making.
Electrical and Chemical Signaling:
Fungal mycelia exhibit rich dynamics of neuron-like spiking behavior and a wide range of non-linear electrical properties, which can be used to implement logical gates and circuits.
Information Transfer:
Waves of electrical activity and chemical signals, along with morphological changes in the mycelium structure, are used to transfer information.
Logical Circuits:
Researchers have demonstrated that the non-linear transformation of electrical signals and trains of extracellular voltage spikes can be used to implement logical gates and circuits.
Mycelium Bound Composites:
Scientists have shown that mycelium-bound composites can implement representative functions from all classes of cellular automata complexity, including computationally universal functions.