Entangled Life

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A mushroom is just the fruit. The organism itself is a web — mycelium, a mesh of fine filaments called hyphae that threads through soil, wood, and the bodies of other creatures. Merlin Sheldrake’s argument is that fungi quietly demolish one of our most basic assumptions: that life comes packaged as separate, self-contained individuals. Mycelium has no brain, no center, no body plan, yet it solves problems, trades goods, and manipulates animals. Follow the fungi and the neat boundary around “an organism” starts to dissolve.

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