Ophiocordyceps unilateralis forms a fungal network invading ant muscles but not the brain.

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• Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus controls ant behavior without infecting ant brainfinding0.871
  Natural chimaera demonstrating goal-directed control of host behavior through body-wide fungal network, not CNS manipulation.
• Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l. fungal parasite systemconcept0.836
• Some visual illusions that plague vertebrate nervous systems are recapitulated in collective intelligences such as ants.claim0.736
  Suggests deep commonalities between neural and swarm cognitive processing.
• Superposition hypothesis: neural networks represent more features than dimensions using almost-orthogonal directions.hypothesis0.714
  Explanation for why dictionary learning can recover many more features than dimensions.
• Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.711
  Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.
• In Dictyostelium aggregation, acrasin concentration highest at the center of gravity of swimming cells creates a virtual center that, via chemotaxis, becomes a real physical entity intensifying aggregation further.finding0.708
  Biological finding demonstrating the mechanism of latent center intensification in slime mold morphogenesis
• Ectopic eyes formed in frog embryo tails still function; eye primordia cells succeed in forming an eye, optic nerve, and correct neural connections despite abnormal spatial context.finding0.707
• Anatomical homeostasis is a goal-seeking capacity of collective intelligence of cellular swarms; bioelectric networks controlled morphogenesis before controlling behavior.finding0.704
  Demonstrates that intelligence and goal-directedness operate in problem spaces beyond 3D behavioral space; supports basal cognition framework.