the largest organism on Earth he said your mom is a species of pathogenic fungus known as honey fungus now affectionately up the humongous fungus it is roughly the size of 177,000 football fields or 3.55 million potatoes but more importantly this 8,000 yearold Godless Behemoth is living proof that humans are some sort of top of the food chain Superior beings no we're submissive genetically modifiable capitalists fun the secret rulers of a planet and I'm ready to surrender myself to any sci-fi apocalyptic scenario that will involve these guys taking over in this video I explain why let's start with the basics what is this what does it do exactly when you go on the walk it's almost etiquette to stop acknowledge any mushrooms you come across like hey wow it's a bunch of little guys growing from the dirt yes the mushroom Motif is somewhat worshiped by Millennials who have colored hair but most people just think of funai is food and on that note why is there a mushroom in my vegetable fried rice Leonard Sheldon please mushrooms are not vegetables Leonard sh no I refuse to eat this unprincipled and misleading Chinese dish Bazinga funa are not plants they do reproduce like plants but comparing this allmighty Transcendent being to a freaking cabage is disrespectful to her future overlords because mushrooms actually have more genetically in common with animals than they do with plants and also the mushroom itself is litery and figuratively just barely scratching the surface of fungus intrique because we're used to thinking of this as being a mushroom and it is what we to think of a mushroom as something a bit more like this this here is called the midium which is basically the brain part now the mushroom is essentially just a reproductive organ next time you want to tell a vegan to go eat a dick consider the fact that it's often their first choice regardless anyway underneath the soil we can observe a sort of network of th FRS called hiy which might look like poor Cable Management to our inferior brains but fun is good at planning the network is a team of Japanese Railway Engineers No Cap haha get it okay this network is pretty much the only thing holding nature together and it's basically an idelic Society I'm talking KL marks pissing himself over a can of tesos but and mushrooms idic the networks are really just out there decomposing dying organisms and redistributing the nutrients throughout the colony and the surrounding ecosystem with no Financial incentive Network fungi operates in a realm of pure economic communication that is based in the great to good is what mushroom nerd William ptia Brown says about the Funko Network and how mushrooms do that is through the highy which use patterns of electrical impulses to spread information and misleading gossip across the myal networks like hey Nemo told at 12:00 water just a bit further up ahead Pete Davidson is dating someone again nitrogen at 3:00 it may or may not be another Kardashian this communication within the fungal network was proven recently when this other nerd stuck electrodes ented my city networks and observe their responses to different stimuli with this experiment he was able to discover that the funai responses were similar in structure to electrical impulses in an animal's brain but unlike animals they have a deep understanding of what makes the natural environment th and they support everything around them says yet another cute myologist Jasper dagos like damn what are they feeding those boys mushrooms I guess fungal Melia consciously react to the environment and other creatures and have spatial reasoning and even in short-term memory they are definitely conscious and definitely intelligent they're just in a whole different dimension than we are explains Nicholas P money which is why I now fully believe anyone who claims to have discovered the true meaning of the universe during a mushroom trip and here's the thing it's not just within the network Peter VAB been first coined the term woodwi web which sounds like a c poral website but it actually refers to the fact that the Melia is also how trees communicate with each other like hey bestie I am dying there have not been enough nutrients for me don't worry bestie I got you thanks I am now thriving 90% of all plant life depends on funi for its survival and so do we they've been evolving on Earth for more than a billion years and once the dominant species on our planet funy are also able to F in any environment both inside and alongside plants and animals as well as synthesize chemical compounds for their own designs for example the enzymes they used to digest rock and create literal soil but de brown sees funi as the ancient intelligent designers of Earth's ecosystem he says we know that when a pathogen threatens a mushroom or its symbiote fungi will create an antibiotic to get rid of the pathogen we also know that they Farm yeasts and microbes for themselves and if you take that understanding back hundreds of millions of years you can understand that as life was first evolving fungi were choosing the Single Cell organisms that got to stick around so when we look at the forest today they're composed mostly a fungal decisions I'd like to see how a carrot could do that now there are plenty of sci-fi Horrors born from the concept of AD zombie fungi but considering all this will they take over no because they already have