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by stadium 1580 days ago
I'd take an opposite view that as humans, we don't know what we don't know, and the scope of our unknowing is much greater than we lend ourselves to believe.

Another great example studies of mycelium networks exchanging nutrients with forest tree root networks. The exchange of nutrients has much in common with the firing of neutrons in the animal brain. This was discovered by "feeding" trees radioactive CO2 gas and observing how it moves to other trees. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mec.15520