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M.K. Dorje Sr.

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From the Good News Network comes a story so bizarre, I'm honestly wondering if it's real- about musicians who hook up bionic arms to a mushroom so it can play electronic drums:

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bionic-arms-enable-mushrooms-to-create-music-using-their-own-energy-listen/

What do you think- is this for real or just a prank?

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I have heard of such things before. Apparently they read electrical impulses from the plants and use that as information.

https://www.musicoftheplants.com/

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I wanted to know how they did that:

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bionic-arms-enable-mushrooms-to-create-music-using-their-own-energy-listen/

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M Ljin wrote:I have heard of such things before. Apparently they read electrical impulses from the plants and use that as information.

https://www.musicoftheplants.com/

Thank you for posting this, I especially liked the story where the plant was put in a cart and trained itself to drive so it could move towards a source of water to get a drink! Hilarious!

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I have a thought.....

Maybe someone is *looking* for fungi to be musical. Therefore an apparatus is constructed that somehow makes sounds come from some electronic music device (speaker). At that point, that sound is deemed *music* and therefore it must be the creation of the mushroom!

I am a bit skeptical, but yeah, it is sort of weird-cool. And I like weird.

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I saw a similar video the other day, my husband showed it to me, he was more into it than I was, I'm skeptical.

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