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NedKelly

Mind controlling fungus!

Posted: Aug 12, 2009 @ 1:18PM 5 replies

This fungus takes control of the minds of carpenter ants to help it reproduce.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32388708/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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ogreoregon

Re: Mind controlling fungus!

Posted: Aug 12, 2009 @ 5:52PM

Really interesting things happen in the real world..do you think the ants know what is controlling their behavior?...what about humans? what is controlling the Sigler Fan...is it a fungus? or just mind control by those pesky blue triangles?
*I am the Rear Admiral but Sigler gives the Orders*

*I am the Rear Admiral but Sigler gives the Orders*

Insignificant_Blood_Splatter

Re: Mind controlling fungus!

Posted: Aug 16, 2009 @ 10:31PM

That's pretty crazy. Never heard of it before.

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Yngve

Re: Mind controlling fungus!

Posted: Aug 23, 2009 @ 9:49AM

Daniel Dennett mentionet the Lancet Fluke (Dicrocoelium Dendriticum) in "Breaking the Spell".

And there's a bunch of these critters
But luckily none that has the capasity to remote controll humans... Yet...

Yngve

Re: Mind controlling fungus!

Posted: Sep 12, 2009 @ 2:27AM

This cutie would fit nicely into a range of siglerian things.
I wonder if any of the hitherto unmentioned species (if any) in the rookie universe have a symbiont relationship with oter organisms...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/jersey/8246001.stm