[hinkley]

It’s heuristics encoded in genes.

Things get more confusing when I talk about how fungi are the original farmers. But I don’t mean that anthropomorphically. I just mean farmer as “an entity that farms”

Susanne Simard, who knows trees better than fungi, tries to ascribe a sense of fairness to how forest food web fungi share and disburse minerals, sugars and water. Personally I just see osmotic pressure. Not as the only driver (see also arbitrage), but the one responsible for most of that “fairness”.