How Mushrooms Have Created The Language Of Nature

There’s this weird similarity of the neurotransmitter serotonin (happiness) and the “neurotransmitter” psilocybin (shrooms). I mean, chemically, they’re very very similar. We don’t understand the messaging system within mycelium as well as we do that of the brain—most of what we know about the brain is very preliminary.

Through networking mycelium in combination with mutualistic bacteria we might be able to create living computer membranes that would help us make the bridge between humans and nature.
I think nature is speaking rather vociferously to us, but we can’t hear what the message is.

So being able to create these interfaces, directly to the traffic of nature that’s given us birth, I think is going to be critical to human survival. – Paul Stamets, Omni Reboot