The lab that’s growing mushroom computers

Stopped reading at the picture of the mushroom motherboard. I don't doubt this is something interesting and real but it's just an x86 machine with a bunch of mushrooms jammed into the heatsinks, for seemingly no reason whatsoever. It's not explained from what I can tell.

What a weird article.

It is pop-sci, but to skip past the fluff and get to the meat of it, there are some interesting links to research further in the article, like this one:

Towards fungal computer: Abstract We propose that fungi Basidiomycetes can be used as computing devices: information is represented by spikes of electrical activity, a computation is implemented in a mycelium network and an interface is realized via fruit bodies. In a series of scoping experiments, we demonstrate that electrical activity recorded on fruits might act as a reliable indicator of the fungi’s response to thermal and chemical stimulation. A stimulation of a fruit is reflected in changes of electrical activity of other fruits of a cluster, i.e. there is distant information transfer between fungal fruit bodies. In an automaton model of a fungal computer, we show how to implement computation with fungi and demonstrate that a structure of logical functions computed is determined by mycelium geometry. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsfs.201...

An exciting article, although you need to pass through the trap they put in the first picture. I trust humankind will find its ways through mycelium