Re: Mushrooms as sensor control robot movements

On 2024-09-04 11:09 p.m., Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Wed, 4 Sep 2024 16:03:06 -0400) it happened Phil Hobbs
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On 2024-09-04 06:18, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Scientists build a robot that is part fungus, part machine
   https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/04/science/fungus-robot-mushroom-biohybrid/index.html
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They could power it from potato batteries!

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I eat a lot of mushrooms...

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Explains a lot, really. ;)

 Yes, do they control me?
Maybe it is Russian mushrooms?
Or are they containing CHernobyl radiation?
 My night vision is exceptional
But now something really strange happened
Day before yesterday I was in the  sup[p]er market.
Shopping list says 'grounded pepper'
 Standing in front of racks there with a thousand different small bottles with all sorts of colors grounded stuff in it.
Looked at some labels, was not pepper
So, where...?
I stepped back a bit, all of the sudden I had a smell intensivation, smelled a hundred or more things,
took a deep sniff, noticed the pepper, got ii
 Now dogs can do that (to find drugs for example in custom control)
but HOW can my smell suddenly increase hundreds if not thousands times so I can can pick
out  a closed bottle from meters away in a second?

I think your nose was simply overwhelmed by all the scents when you were closer to the bottles - backing up diluted the smells enough that your brain could then differentiate them...
One of Richard Feynman's books (What Do You Care What Other People Think - AIR) went into some simple experiments he played with his wife on scents...

 

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Cheers
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Phil Hobbs
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