“Plants do. It’s called photosynthesis. It’s not the entire diet, but it is the energy source that converts the food to nourishment. That’s probably what this fungi does.”
Interesting comment. Photoreceptors in the eye work similarly.
Eating is not a good analogy, though.
I didn’t write the article and I don’t teach in universities where they can’t even agree on how many genders humans possess. For the idiocracy we live in, eating is the closest analogy that the dumb masses can understand.