# In the beginning was connection. A conversation with Kenneth Cross

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Podcast: [The Realisation Festival Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-realisation-festival-podcast-7072015)
Published: 2025-01-14T17:00:00+00:00
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Many of today’s troubles could be described as ones of connection. But is that about a lack of connection, a flood of connection, or perhaps the quality of connections? Mark Vernon talks with Kenneth Cross about relationally and, in particular, the inspiration that might be drawn from fungi. Mycelium exist in a substerranean world, blurring the distinctions between organisms, sharing in ways that are strange even disturbing. So what light does that cast on human sympathies and selfhood? ...

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