You do have a wonderful way with words!

It's a meme pic, so I'm just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it's the "mushroom" fruiting body that's doing anything in this research. It's almost certainly the mycelium or we're dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don't produce mushrooms at all.

Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.

I, for one, welcome our new fungus overlords.

Humans lose anyway.

Mushroom Intelligence vs AI vs Humanity is the RTS I didn’t know I wanted

Ngl, it would be good to have 40k orc army (fungi-infected super soldiers) on our side. That is, if siding with orc is ever possible.

But you didn't promise anything about arachnic legs!

My shroom trip vision made me believe that we are just a seed to spread spores and how that is why humankind loves exploring and burying each other in the ground. I also went into the afterlife where my mind connected to the underground network of mycelium and I could see all past memories of people that died and were connected. Before the vision though was the worst experience ever and I won't do it again

Is it strange that I'm less concerned about mushrooms being able to talk than I am about mushrooms being able to see us?

I can play doom on mushrooms any time I want

How long until mushrooms can play doom on people?

You can play it on gut bacteria, so it seems possible.

How long until mushrooms can play Doom?

Aroo!

Actually, mycellium is probably very highly inteligent, if big enough, so it would probably be either great or terrible for humans.

Thats basically the premise of the Uplift series by David Brin

The Day of the Triffids (Wiki link)

Night of truffles will be the parody version

I bet he's a fungi.

Too late!