Could we merge biologically with the fungal network and live forever?

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Prepare to meet members of an extreme cult that took root – literally – in a forest on a Japanese island in the 2080s. An unknown number of people traded their status as individual humans to merge biologically with the fungal network in forest soil.

The cult grew out of a Buddhist sect that modernised the traditional belief that there is no spiritual or moral boundary between selves. The concept was adapted by Zen ecologists who championed the idea of the holobiome, viewing an organism as a super-entity comprised of the host body and all its symbiotic microbes. The No Boundary…

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