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Or they produce it exactly because animals are entertained by it to spread its spores. Or it’s random. Or who the hell knows. 🤷♂️
Psychedelic mushrooms likely developed their “magical” properties to trip up fungi-munching insects, suggests new research
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180227115548.htm
Scientists. Scientists are who knows.
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Right… In the same way that gravity is still only a theory.
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Yes, in that way. Scientists can’t say something is true for sure. You can argue (correctly) that gravity has more evidence backing it up. It’s the accepted theory that gravity works the way it does because it lines up with every observation made involving it.
In the same exact way, psylocybin being produced by mushrooms to deter predators (certain insects in particular) comports with every observation made about it and explained with the same theories of evolution that lead to similar results with organisms producing chemicals all over the animal kingdom. Like gravity, it’s bad science to say it like an absolute fact, but it’s likely based on all available data.
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I could see that being really bad for something that size.
These things usually aren’t random. It takes energy for the organism to make it, so there’s usually some evolutionary advantage.
Or they produce it exactly because animals are entertained
Reminded me of this.
Dropped my phone can you help me find it?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Every time I see this meme or versions of it I die a thousand times. Mushrooms are the penises of fungus who jizz peacefully in the wind. They WANT to be eaten. Spores travel far.
Psilocybin, if anything, is probably adapted to be attractive to other animals.
Moreover, eating the mushroom isn’t even hurting the original organism. It’s pretty vestigial once the spores have found a way to get out.
Then why are there also extremely poisonous mushrooms?
I dunno I didn’t make em
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I’ve been using one of the hottest sauces I’ve had in a long time. It’s called Satan Revenge made with ghost peppers. I’m in so much pain when and after eating it. It’s good stuff.
jokes on you I’m into that shit
I’m into
thatshit- The fungus, probably.
Given the medical/psychological benefits being explored, it could even be “Your resistance only makes me stronger”.
Slugs: what effects?
The Botany of Desire is a fantastic book and also documentary that discusses, in some part, plants being desirable to humans as a selective force. Plant species that humans value have a higher likelihood of surviving because we use them for agriculture, ensuring their ongoing existence. Everything from tea to teonanácatl!
“Science“
Or those fungi are farming us so we keep spreading and growing them for psychoactive abilities
Millipedes ·('m toxic, nobody will hurt me", Lemurs “Good stuff”
