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The Big Fungus

Why a Big Fungus?

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Fabulous Fungal Metaphors

(draft) Fungi offer rich, evocative, funny metaphors about symbiosis and collaboration in nature, which fit our mission at Open Global Mind to create a shared, interconnected memory for humans in multiple ways, including:

• Hyphae Connect
• Mycelia Externalize Their Digestion
• Fungi Are Essential to Soil Health
• Fungi are the Principal Decomposers in Ecological Systems
• Fungal Fixers - Mycoremediation
• Mycelia Trade Nutrients in the Wood Wide Web
• Leaf-Cutter Ants Can't Digest Leaves. So Why Are They Taking Leaves to Their Nests?
• Mushrooms Are the Fruiting Bodies of Mycelium, (so NeoBooks are Mushrooms of The Big Fungus)
• Fungi Can Be Huge
• The Matsutake's Peculiar Ecosystem
• Magic Mushrooms
• Data as Healthy Soil

Now a narrative to weave these metaphors:

Think of The Big Fungus as a layer of assertions and opinions above Google and Wikipedia, part of Data Is the New Soil.

So how might some of us curate The Big Fungus together? See The Fungus Manifesto.

Of course, we have a fledgling website devoted to The Big Fungus.

FungusTech is what we call the code and collaborations we'll need to help The Big Fungus flourish.

A different metaphor for similar reasons: The Betterverse.

Disclaimer: I am not a biologist or mycologist. All errors here are my misinterpretations; all corrections eagerly accepted.

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