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it's hard being the fun gui (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

is it true trees use it to communicate and even "think"? sounds dope as fuck tbh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'm sceptical. A lot of this is popular science that anthropomorphizes these relationships and blow them out of proportion. What you may think of "communicate" and "think" does not necessarily reflect what is meant in this context.