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I find it fascinating that a fungus can take over an ant and use it's body to climb up on grass to get eaten. i wonder how the lived experience of that fungus changes over it's phases; does he get vision when controlling the ant? how does it feel to suddendly have legs when you are a fungus?

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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m no fun-guy, but I don’t think it works that way. When you drive a car, you don’t suddenly feel like you have wheels. I imagine a zombie fungus driving an ant is akin to a person riding a Silt Strider in Morrowind—a body horror vehicular experience.

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- tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  When you drive a car, you don’t suddenly feel like you have wheels.
  
  A screenshot of Jordan Peele looking proudly smug from the Mad TV skit parodying the T. V. show “Deal or No Deal”
  
  Not the kinda cars I drive, man.
  
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- graymess@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I assume not even that. Doesn’t the fungus just compel an ant to climb up high? The fungus doesn’t experience anything beyond what it normally does and the ant just gets a craving for going up.
  
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  - WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The fungus definitely sits around all day musing “why walk when you could ride?” /s
    
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