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Sustainable memristors from shiitake mycelium for high-frequency bioelectronics

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144 points PaulHoule | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 13:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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joelthelion ◴[31 Oct 25 15:52 UTC] No.45773476[source]▶
Do we really believe that this kind of stuff has any chance of scaling and becoming generally useful?
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1. PaulHoule ◴[31 Oct 25 16:17 UTC] No.45773768[source]▶
If we're ever going to colonize space or even do automated manufacturing in space on any scale we need to build a system which can manufacture "anything" that can be sent in a small number of launches and watched over by just a few people.

Eric Drexler's "assembler" concept has been stuck for the last 25 years, but biological systems are a good model because if they can build you out of a cell they could build just about anything else out of a cell. This kind of mycelium network is running fast compared to the neurons in your brain.