Super-intelligent fungus?

How scientifically plausible is this? A giant, self-aware fungal supercomputer made or evolved from something like the Blue Mountain honey fungus or maybe a slime mold of a similar size? Could something like this ever exist in nature as an example of distributed intelligence, or would it have to be created?

It has to explicitly be self-aware and just as intelligent as humans. The ability to modify its own genes to secrete chemicals that'll attract new prey is a bonus, but frankly I'll settle for a plain ol' giant mushroom supercomputer xP

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