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QuestionText:	Further Meatsphere Concerns...<br><br>-Can fungi grow on the meatsphere<br>-Is fungi decay any more effective on the meatsphere than conventional hitting it with weapons, or at least a feasible approach to suggest trying<br>-Does meatsphere feel pain or emotions (what vibes might an Arthropoda pick up off it)<br>-Does it have a consciousness in there somewhere...I'm assuming given the size of it that trying to grow on enough of it to trigger mind control would be an absolute Project if not impossible regardless, but I'm curious as to what might result if contact of that type was attempted! (Or alternately, if Momo tried to feel for spore presence from any of the inner Patho-Gen people he's spore hijacked/potentially Basileios residents from last month's event he might've helped get home...are they one with meatsphere...)<div class="edittime"><em>Edited <span class="datetime"><span class="comment-date-text"> </span> <span title="">2026-03-06 08:21 pm (local)</span></span></em></div>
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AnswerText:	1. Fungi can grow on the meatsphere- but they don't seem to be able to penetrate deeper than the surface layers of it. (This would also apply to Terras who attempt to grow on the meat.) It doesn't feel like the ideal environment for them, in that there's not enough stable decay happening. So it works, but it doesn't accomplish much.<br><br>2. Which ties into this: fungi decay isn't more effective than conventional weaponry. It's similar to attempts to poison it, in that the meat's healing can outpace the attempts to eat away at it, or disrupt its regenerative process.<br><br>3. The meatsphere has the capacity to feel pain. The way it's put together gives it the receptors for it (along with a general ability to register touch). But if those signals are sent anywhere, it's not clear where that is. The meat in itself is not distressed, or possessing of any emotion at all, so while it may be able to 'feel' when it is hurt, it's a disconnected experience.<br><br>4. The meat also doesn't have a consciousness, at least not as any kind of singular entity. It is meat, stitching itself together into structure, and while it contains the organic components necessary to foster some kind of awareness, it doesn't seem to be able to hold onto it. It's more like there's brief flashes of something like awareness, twitches of buried nerves, instances that fail and 'die' moments after they were generated. <br><br>So it could be described as constantly <i>attempting</i> to generate a myriad of consciousnesses, but isn't getting anywhere with it, in the same way its perception of pain doesn't register. <br><br>(Momo might be able to feel his spores on his colonized people, somewhere within the meat zone. They're not a part of the building structure, so there's that at least. They're still individuals, more or less.)

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