📰 Wood Wide Web: Forest as a Relational System and a Political Challenge
The wood web is more than just science—it's a challenge for forest policy. Explore the forest as an infrastructure of life and learn how to protect its relational structure.
https://dobrepanstwo.org/szkatulka-kosztownosci/wood-wide-web-las-jako-ustroj-relacyjny
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📻 Available for Broadcast on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/p/618860
Produced by Michelle Bruecker & Scott Bleackley. This podcast uses AI-generated synthetic voices for a material portion of audio content.
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Two AI-voiced hosts synthesize all 75 episodes of Heliox Season Six through four conceptual pillars — Quantum-Like Uncertainty, Adaptive Complexity, Embodied Knowledge, and Boundary Dissolution — arriving at a single, resonant question: are we the CEO of the planet, or are we the roots?
🌳 PILLAR FOUR — Boundary Dissolution
Suzanne Simard's mycorrhizal research: mother trees pump surplus carbon through fungal networks to struggling saplings. Across species. No board approval required.
ML tools now decode sperm whale phonemes and regional dialects.
The boundary between humanity and nature is a fiction — and the planet's physical systems are beginning to enforce that fact.
#WoodWideWeb #MycorrhizalNetwork #EcologicalOvershoot #SuzanneSimard
Et si la plante était plus rapide que la mouche ?
On les croit sages, immobiles, presque décoratives. Mais c'est bien mal les connaître. Certaines plantes ont plus d’un tour dans leurs feuilles.
Dans les sols pauvres, elles ont trouvé une solution radicale : manger ce qui passe.
Ainsi, la dionée, elle, ne court pas après les mouches. Elle attend. Elle calcule.
Puis, en un éclair vert, elle referme son piège sur l'impudente imprudente.
De quoi regarder vos plantes d’intérieur autrement... Et vous demander qui, finalement, est vraiment la plus rapide : la mouche ou la plante ?
https://librexpression.fr/qui-est-la-plus-rapide-la-plante-ou-la-mouche
#carnivore #chimie #chlorophylle #communication #dionee #flore #France #IA #librexpression #mouche #nature #naturelovers #oeil #paradoxe #pollinisateur #rapidite #WoodWideWeb
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Et si la plante était plus rapide que la mouche ?
On les croit sages, immobiles, presque décoratives. Mais c'est bien mal les connaître. Certaines plantes ont plus d’un tour dans leurs feuilles.
Dans les sols pauvres, elles ont trouvé une solution radicale : manger ce qui passe.
Ainsi, la dionée, elle, ne court pas après les mouches. Elle attend. Elle calcule.
Puis, en un éclair vert, elle referme son piège sur l'impudente imprudente.
De quoi regarder vos plantes d’intérieur autrement... Et vous demander qui, finalement, est vraiment la plus rapide : la mouche ou la plante ?
https://librexpression.fr/qui-est-la-plus-rapide-la-plante-ou-la-mouche
#carnivore #chimie #chlorophylle #communication #dionee #flore #France #IA #librexpression #mouche #nature #naturelovers #oeil #paradoxe #pollinisateur #rapidite #WoodWideWeb
(Crédits : lil artsy/Pexels)
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🍎 Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/heliox-where-evidence-meets-empathy/id1769969487?i=1000765512410
🎵 Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SDRIUtj7QKHM4h01gLd6n?si=5613a5bf30b04bc7
▶️ YouTube
https://youtu.be/_ajU4x2q0bI
🎧 Listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/2405788
📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/196145715
📻 Available for Broadcast on PRX
https://exchange.prx.org/p/617415
#SuzanneSimard #MotherTree #WoodWideWeb #ForestEcology #MycorrhizalFungi #OldGrowthForest #ScienceCommunication #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateAction #ConservationScience #Heliox #EvidenceMeetsEmpathy #EnvironmentalScience #NaturePodcast
🧩 The Illusion of the Singular Mind — Heliox S6 E68
The voice in your head feels unified and in charge. Split-brain research shows it's confabulating. Marvin Minsky's AI work shows that intelligence was always a society of mindless agents. A brainless slime mould solved the Tokyo rail network. The forest floor runs on distributed cognition older than neurons.
The singular mind is the illusion on which our civilization was built. And it may be the most important thing we've ever been wrong about.
🎧 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/405788
📖 https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/195665586
▶️ https://youtu.be/9R4zccJOSBg
📻 PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/p/617009
#Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #AIEthics #SocietyOfMind #Podcast #ScienceCommunication #Philosophy #Consciousness #WoodWideWeb #OpenScience #HelioxPodcast #DecentralizedIntelligence #Minsky #EvidenceBasedMedia
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Mycotechnologies:
A look at the future of human "applications" for this ancient system, from cleaning up oil spills to growing habitats for future Mars colonies.
"She says that while the scientific community has often had a “harder time” absorbing her ideas, her work aligns with indigenous wisdom on how forests work and tends to make intuitive sense to lay people, too"
#Forests #Trees #WoodWideWeb #Ecology #Biodiversity
‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics | Trees and forests | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/14/my-ideas-are-a-little-revolutionary-ecologist-suzanne-simard-on-intelligent-forests-the-climate-and-her-critics
Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimagine our relationship with nature
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