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Fungal Network Civilizations

Fungal network civilizations are one of the strangest models in alien-civilization theory: societies emerging not from mobile animal-like bodies, but from sprawling living networks of hyphae and mycelium. Drawing on mycorrhizal symbiosis, fungal signaling research, common-network debates, and the sheer scale of real fungal organisms, the model explores what civilization might look like when intelligence is distributed through a living substrate rather than concentrated inside separate individuals.