Name: New theories expand cognition to fungi
Description: Professor Nicholas Money explores the possibility that fungi could have consciousness, expanding our understanding of sentience

Consciousness is an elusive concept. Professor Nicholas Money of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio has argued for a new philosophy of cellular consciousness and suggests that fungi have minds. When we explore the sensitivity of fungi and other microbes and recognise their ability to interpret and respond to their environment, it seems logical to extend the definition of consciousness to […]