To be fair, do we know for certain that fungi do not experience some form of social life?
It may not be human sapience but the mycelium networks hint at some forms of communicating information.
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melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours agoIf we’re being pedantic fungi have neither gender nor sex, they have “mating types”. But yeah, mating types are more analogous to sexes than genders. Fungi would have to have some level of social experience to have gender.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
I reworded my comment a few times to try to hedge for that, without making any claims about fungi experiences because I couldn’t know anything about that.
It’s certainly possible fungi experience some form of social life, but I think it’s unlikely they have an experience of gender at all analogous to ours.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
its usually a denoted + OR - for mating pairs.