The 5 Kingdoms of Life are: Protista (eukaryotes), Monera (prokaryotes), Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. This is a study to find why a species of Animalia, known as Homo Sapiens, is influenced by a species of Fungi called the mushroom: psilocybin. Upon ingestion of this mushroom, most humans encounter hallucinogenic experiences. So why does a chemical produced by the simple Fungi lifeform dramatically influence a complex lifeform’s central nervous system? The answer is energy. Somewhere in the distant past, Fungi and simple Animalia branches diverged and created the Kingdom that would eventually spawn a species known as Homos. Fungi is a non mobile lifeform and requires growth for it to move to its food (energy). So, it grew mushrooms to disperse its spores to increase its reach. Once Animalia branched away, Fungi used these creatures to absorb
nutrients from them. The problem was that Animalia grew appendages to achieve locomotion and escape. This required the Fungi to produce chemical compounds to attract the prey back into a digestive distance. The same game takes place in the animal world when pheromones are released to attract members of the opposite sex for procreation. One of the few species that got it right is the female Praying Mantis that attracts a male with odors, mates with him, and then devours him for nutrition. In the case of Fungi, they rely on an organism to fall dead and close by so as to consume them by growing into the creature’s inner structure. Way back in the past, one species (psilocybin) produced a chemical that upset the survival mechanism and caused the animal to do foolish things. This is the technique that this mushroom uses to entice the Homos; interrupt the thought process by short circuiting the brain with sensory overload and cause the animal to do something stupid that will cause death and then be absorbed by the Fungi. Some psychos (J.D.) may have been a psilocybin mushroom in disguise.
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