Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

According to Friston's way of thinking, which he calls active inference, the brain is not the body's helmsman or puppeteer, but its dreamer. Brain and body are bound up in a mutual project to predict the world successfully. Sometimes the brain does the work, sometimes the body.

Similar processes are at work in our forests here at home. Beeches, spruce, and oaks all register pain as soon as some creature starts nibbling on them. When a caterpillar takes a hearty bite out of a leaf, the tissue around the site of the damage changes. In addition, the leaf tissue sends out electrical signals, just as human tissue does when it

séculos, um único fungo pode se estender por muitos quilômetros quadrados e criar uma rede capaz de ligar florestas inteiras.