7l, just so were clear, Ive made no comments suggesting that mushrooms/fungi "feel" anything. They are not animals ergo they have no nervous system.
However, they found some years ago the fungi are genetically closer to humans or animals in general than plants are to animals.
All 5 kingdoms share the many of the same genes and Fred Hoyle made this clear in his book "Intelligent Universe".
He pointed all the the genes the cause the color yellow or blue etc are the same in plants and animals.
Fungi is also obvious closely related to animals because we have various kinds of yeasts, or whatever other fungi that grow on us or in us.
No plants growing on humans/animals,
Hope that clarifies my thoughts.
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/sc...ngi-phylogeny/
....."The most obvious similarity between fungi and animals is their trophic level, that is, their place in the food chain. Neither fungi nor animals are producers as plants are. Both must use external food sources for energy.
Fungi and animals share a molecule called chitin that is not found in plants......
...."Fungi and plants may look similar, but they are not closely related. In fact, fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.
Animals, plants, and fungi are the three major multicellular groups of the domain Eukaryota. Eukaryotes are organisms with complex cells which have features such as mitochondria and nuclei, and only Domain Eukaryota has evolved to have members consisting of many cells (although some eukaryotes, such as
Amoeba and
Paramecium, are single-celled).
Many fungi are superficially plant-like organisms. They grow visible structures that resemble plants or plant parts. On a microscopic level, plants and fungi both have cell walls, a feature that metazoan (animal) cells lack. The study of cladistics, however, results in a phylogeny tree in which fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants. In other words, animals have a more recent common ancestor with fungi than with plants, and the mushrooms in your salad are more closely related to you than to the lettuce."....
r6
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Originally Posted by 7luminaries
R6, hahaha  You are hilarious! We don't actually know whether mushrooms "feel" anything, but I really do have to applaud the creativity and craft that went into these posts  |