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How Plants Communicate and Think
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2018-03-20 at 3:32 PM UTC
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2018-03-20 at 7:17 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-09-14 at 5:41 AM UTCPlants communicate distress using their own kind of nervous system
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/plants-communicate-distress-using-their-own-kind-nervous-system
Plants may lack brains, but they have a nervous system, of sorts. And now, plant biologists have discovered that when a leaf gets eaten, it warns other leaves by using some of the same signals as animals. The new work is starting to unravel a long-standing mystery about how different parts of a plant communicate with one another. -
2019-01-30 at 1 PM UTChttps://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/plants-feel-pain.htm
According to researchers at the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Bonn in Germany, plants release gases that are the equivalent of crying out in pain. Using a laser-powered microphone, researchers have picked up sound waves produced by plants releasing gases when cut or injured. Although not audible to the human ear, the secret voices of plants have revealed that cucumbers scream when they are sick, and flowers whine when their leaves are cut.
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2019-03-19 at 11:03 AM UTC
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2019-04-18 at 11:11 AM UTCI do think that plants are more intelligent advanced than we tend to think.
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2019-04-18 at 12:40 PM UTCIncreasing numbers of researchers, in a multiplicity of fields, are beginning to acknowledge that intelligence is an inevitable aspect of all self-organized systems—that sophisticated neural networks are a hallmark of life. Some researchers are becoming quite vocal in attacking what they call the “brain chauvinism.” Kevin Warwick, a cyberneticist, observes succinctly that, “Comparisons (in intelligence) are usually made between characteristics that humans consider important; such a stance is of course biased and subjective in terms of the groups for whom it is being used.” In other words, rationalists, who have long attacked the concept of plant intelligence and consciousness and awareness in nature as antirational romantic projection, have themselves been merely looking at and for their own reflection in the world around them—and, of course, finding the world wanting. But what especially activates their antirational subjectivity is whenever the organism in question appears to not have a brain, such as with bacteria, viruses, and most especially plants.
Plants and Perception
The old paradigm about plants, which is very common and (unfortunately) still believed by most people, is that plants are unconscious, “passive entities subject to environmental forces and organisms that are designed solely for accumulation of photosynthetic products.” But as Baluska et al. note:
The new view, by contrast, is that plants are dynamic and highly sensitive organisms, actively and competitively foraging for limited resources both above and below ground, and that they are also organisms which accurately compute their circumstances, use sophisticated cost-benefit analysis, and that take defined actions to mitigate and control diffuse environmental conditions. Moreover, plants are also capable of a refined recognition of self and non-self and this leads to territorial behavior. This new view considers plants as conscious, information-processing organisms with complex communication throughout the individual plant, including feelings and perception of pain, among other things. Plants are as intelligent and sophisticated in behavior as animals but their potential has been masked because it operates on time scales many orders of magnitude longer than that operation in animals… Owing to this lifestyle, the only long-term response to rapidly changing environments is an equally rapid adaptation; therefore, plants have developed a very robust communication, signaling and information-processing apparatus… Besides abundant interactions with the environment, plants communicate and interact with other living systems such as other plants, fungi, nematodes, bacteria, viruses, insects, and predatory animals.
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2019-04-18 at 12:41 PM UTCnude selfys
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2019-04-18 at 1:48 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-19 at 6:27 AM UTCWe have a moral obligation to not eat.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-05-22 at 10:45 AM UTC
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2019-07-25 at 11:57 AM UTC
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2019-07-25 at 9:55 PM UTCMy plants are thinking its time to grow buds
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2019-09-13 at 10:51 PM UTC
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2019-09-13 at 11:04 PM UTCHave you read about forests having interconnecting roots and warning other trees of danger through them?
There is some debate over whether or not we should reclassify them as a sort of hive mind. -
2019-09-14 at 12:27 AM UTC
Originally posted by G4LM Have you read about forests having interconnecting roots and warning other trees of danger through them?
There is some debate over whether or not we should reclassify them as a sort of hive mind.
Yes, I believe Paul Stamets talks about this too. There is another thread about him, but I don't think you watched it because joe rogan is the interviewer. -
2020-02-10 at 3:37 PM UTCHYPOTHESES: The drive to survive is a biological universal. Intelligent behaviour is usually recognized when individual organisms including plants, in the face of fiercely competitive or adverse, real-world circumstances, change their behaviour to improve their probability of survival.
SCOPE: This article explains the potential relationship of intelligence to adaptability and emphasizes the need to recognize individual variation in intelligence showing it to be goal directed and thus being purposeful. Intelligent behaviour in single cells and microbes is frequently reported. Individual variation might be underpinned by a novel learning mechanism, described here in detail. The requirements for real-world circumstances are outlined, and the relationship to organic selection is indicated together with niche construction as a good example of intentional behaviour that should improve survival. Adaptability is important in crop development but the term may be complex incorporating numerous behavioural traits some of which are indicated.
CONCLUSION: There is real biological benefit to regarding plants as intelligent both from the fundamental issue of understanding plant life but also from providing a direction for fundamental future research and in crop breeding.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/31563953/ -
2020-02-18 at 3:15 PM UTCHidden under your feet is an information superhighway that allows plants to communicate and help each other out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet
