The article explores the intricate relationships between mushrooms, mental models, and perception. It cites Hope Jahren's analogy to illustrate that a mushroom is merely a fruiting body, with most fungal activity occurring underground through complex networks. This highlights the limitations of our perceptions. Jeff Hawkins' insights from "A Thousand Brains" reveal that the brain organizes knowledge into countless map-like mental models, emphasizing that our understanding of reality is more nuanced than it appears. By juxtaposing these concepts, the article invites readers to reconsider their cognitive frameworks.
If I say a mushroom is a fungus, you might claim that's obvious, but Hope Jahren says, "this is exactly like believing that a penis is a man." As the fruiting body of a fungus, a mushroom is merely a sex organ, more like an apple than a tree.
The brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know.
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