1 00:00:05,870 --> 00:00:21,550 So when I was a kid, an animal that we used to have, at least in my generation, was the hombre del sacro. 2 00:00:21,550 --> 00:00:34,590 Right? So then we grew up, and some of them we decided to go, to apply to the, to become a teacher in the public system, and then we had another nightmare, right? 3 00:00:34,590 --> 00:00:40,590 So here are some of the themes that you are familiar with then. 4 00:00:40,590 --> 00:00:48,030 And for me, in 1935, Kingdom of Angers was especially hard. 5 00:00:48,030 --> 00:00:56,030 I talked to my colleague, who is a great teacher, and she recommended to lend me a book. 6 00:00:56,030 --> 00:01:01,030 And when I read it, I felt like I had discovered a new world. 7 00:01:01,030 --> 00:01:09,189 One of the things that impresses me the most is the fact that the largest living thing 8 00:01:09,189 --> 00:01:16,150 so far is a fungi, believe it or not, and what is very large, it can be like 4 km long, 9 00:01:16,150 --> 00:01:25,349 and it's in the United States, is the mycelium, what is underground, you can see, and the 10 00:01:25,349 --> 00:01:30,950 interesting thing about fungi and some type of fungi and the mycelium is that some of 11 00:01:30,950 --> 00:01:38,349 them, they make microquista, so they join with the roots of plants, and they get a beneficial 12 00:01:38,349 --> 00:01:45,170 relationship, so it's both of them. Also, some scientists, they think that these mycelia, 13 00:01:45,170 --> 00:01:51,310 they can act kind of like a network, connecting and communicating somehow different plants. 14 00:01:51,310 --> 00:02:01,310 So, by looking at this, well, this impressive mycelium, it's like, okay, this remembers, right, to another thing, right? 15 00:02:01,310 --> 00:02:08,310 And now that, wow, it's a neuron, right? So this is a Purkinje neuron from the cell vein. 16 00:02:08,310 --> 00:02:14,310 That hormone was named by our Nobel Prize, that we should be very proud of him, right? 17 00:02:14,310 --> 00:02:19,310 Santiago Ramón y Cajal. He's considered the father of neuroscience. 18 00:02:19,310 --> 00:02:28,310 And after him, a lot of research has been done, and, well, this is their culture neurons in a petri dish, right? 19 00:02:28,310 --> 00:02:35,310 So we can see that those neurons, well, they grow up and they create ganoderma as a network, right? 20 00:02:35,310 --> 00:02:37,310 So they connect with each other. 21 00:02:37,310 --> 00:02:42,310 Theoretically, well, that's how they connect in the brain, in the real brain. 22 00:02:42,310 --> 00:02:46,710 So, well, again, this image of this network image 23 00:02:46,710 --> 00:02:51,569 remembers, well, to another, well, this is another network. 24 00:02:51,569 --> 00:02:53,849 They may look like ultra-neurons, 25 00:02:53,849 --> 00:02:57,930 but this is a model right now that is the theory 26 00:02:57,930 --> 00:03:01,949 about how galaxies are organizing the universe. 27 00:03:01,949 --> 00:03:06,250 So the idea that they are clusters on super clusters 28 00:03:06,250 --> 00:03:08,449 of galaxies, that they are all connected 29 00:03:08,449 --> 00:03:10,849 in a sheet-like way, right? 30 00:03:10,849 --> 00:03:26,849 And if you just look into one of those superclusters, one of them is the one called Laniakea, that was published in 2014, and this is our supercluster. 31 00:03:26,849 --> 00:03:32,849 So this is Laniakea, this is just part of one thread like, and here is our building. 32 00:03:32,849 --> 00:04:01,490 Right, so I just want to make this point, this curiosity. I'm not the first one, but when I first thought about this, when I saw the image of the superclusters of galaxies, and then it came to me the image of a lunar, when I looked on the internet, other people before me, right, they have probably seen this, right, in a web or in a blog, right, making these, also other people have compared the mycelium with the universe, 33 00:04:01,490 --> 00:04:06,490 And also, the other day, yesterday, I found that they have compared the three of them. 34 00:04:06,490 --> 00:04:10,490 So someone has compared the mycelium with the universe and the neurons. 35 00:04:10,490 --> 00:04:18,490 So it's like, just, I want to finish with, this was a nightmare, and now it has not... 36 00:04:18,490 --> 00:04:24,470 They are not a nightmare anymore, and they have just transformed into, like, their very beautiful networks.