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Fungal electrical spiking

Experiments: basic research on living systems, not technology.

Also: mushroom electricity, fungal language

Mushrooms and their root-like networks produce trains of electrical spikes.

Known properties: Fungal electrical spiking

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Key measured values

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PropertyValueSource
Spike duration1–21 hAdamatzky 2022
Spike amplitude0.03–2.1 mVAdamatzky 2022

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  1. 2022 Electrical "words" in fungi

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Electrical "words" in fungi

Adamatzky recorded electrical spikes in four fungi and found species-specific patterns clustered into trains, which he grouped into possible "words" while assuming they carry information.

As reported in: Adamatzky (2022). Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity. Royal Society Open Science. doi:10.1098/rsos.211926

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