render/tests/fixtures/pages/Mycorrhizal Networks.md

title:: Mycorrhizal Networks
tags:: biology, networks, research
public:: true
icon:: 🍄

- Underground fungal networks that connect trees and plants.
- ## The Wood Wide Web
  - Trees share resources through mycorrhizal connections
  - Older trees ("mother trees") support younger ones
  - Network topology mirrors human communication patterns
- ## Connection to Computing
  - Distributed consensus without central authority
  - See [[Collective Focus Theorem]] for mathematical model
  - [[Bostrom]] network inspired by similar principles