Input/Output and reacting to input in general is not analogous to sapience or even just sentience. Otherwise this would also be a hint that our phones have a social life.
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks agoTo 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.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Considering the spam calls I get, my phone has more of a social life than I do
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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.