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2018-03-07 at 11:10 PM UTC in How Plants Communicate and Think
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2018-03-07 at 7:20 PM UTC in How Plants Communicate and ThinkPlants do not have a brain or neuronal network, but reactions within signalling pathways may provide a biochemical basis for learning and memory in addition to computation and problem solving.[29]
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2018-03-07 at 4:49 PM UTC in How Plants Communicate and ThinkThe plant root cap, a group of some 200 cells that act holistically in responding to numerous signals, likely possesses a similar systems structure agreeing with Darwin’s description of acting like the brain of a lower organism. Intelligent behavior requires assessment of different choices and taking the beneficial one. Decisions are constantly required to optimize the plant phenotype to a dynamic environment and the cambium is the assessing tissue diverting more or removing resources from different shoot and root branches through manipulation of vascular elements. Environmental awareness likely indicates consciousness. Spontaneity in plant behavior, ability to count to five and error correction indicate intention. Volatile organic compounds are used as signals in plant interactions and being complex in composition may be the equivalent of language accounting for self and alien recognition by individual plants. Game theory describes competitive interactions. Interactive and intelligent outcomes emerge from application of various games between plants themselves and interactions with microbes. Behavior profiting from experience, another simple definition of intelligence, requires both learning and memory and is indicated in the priming of herbivory, disease and abiotic stresses.
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2018-03-07 at 4:35 PM UTC in Are the page numbers different?
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2018-03-07 at 1:44 PM UTC in If you genuinely care about things, you're a fucking retard. +a question to philosophyfags.If only this applied to your views on women too, I wouldn't see 6 threads a day about your anger.
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2018-03-07 at 12:12 PM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-03-07 at 1:57 AM UTC in How do you organize your thoughts?I make a list of things I need to do otherwise I forget to. Beyond that I let my thoughts organize themselves.
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2018-03-07 at 1:50 AM UTC in why do girls only talk to me when they're single?
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2018-03-07 at 1:43 AM UTC in why do girls only talk to me when they're single?Do you make 6 threads a day about cunts because you think it's funny or something?
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2018-03-07 at 12:04 AM UTC in How Plants Communicate and Think
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2018-03-06 at 7:29 PM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-03-06 at 7:23 PM UTC in Basic Attention Tokens for NiS
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2018-03-06 at 7:12 PM UTC in How Plants Communicate and ThinkMore:
…even scientists in the field don't argue that plants have neurons or brains.
"They have analagous structures," Pollan explains. "They have ways of taking all the sensory data they gather in their everyday lives … integrate it and then behave in an appropriate way in response. And they do this without brains, which, in a way, is what's incredible about it, because we automatically assume you need a brain to process information."
And we assume you need ears to hear. But researchers, says Pollan, have played a recording of a caterpillar munching on a leaf to plants — and the plants react. They begin to secrete defensive chemicals — even though the plant isn't really threatened, Pollan says. "It is somehow hearing what is, to it, a terrifying sound of a caterpillar munching on its leaves."
Pollan says plants have all the same senses as humans, and then some. In addition to hearing, taste, for example, they can sense gravity, the presence of water, or even feel that an obstruction is in the way of its roots, before coming into contact with it. Plant roots will shift direction, he says, to avoid obstacles.
So what about pain? Do plants feel? Pollan says they do respond to anesthetics. "You can put a plant out with a human anesthetic. … And not only that, plants produce their own compounds that are anesthetic to us."
…They don't have nerve cells like humans, but they do have a system for sending electrical signals and even produce neurotransmitters, like dopamine, serotonin and other chemicals the human brain uses to send signals…
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-intelligence-may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plants -
2018-03-06 at 4:34 PM UTC in do you think there are other forums on the internet like this?Not on the internet, no. But down dark alleyways and inside boarded up crack houses? Maybe.
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2018-03-06 at 12:42 AM UTC in Chinese kids always acting retarded when trying to find a seatWhy don't you just talk to them?
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2018-03-05 at 11:39 PM UTC in Shape of waterIn order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you putwater in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing.'
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. -
2018-03-05 at 11:31 PM UTC in Where's mmQ?Sometimes you have to let people live their lives.
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2018-03-05 at 7:22 PM UTC in I just gone done one of those personality tests, but answered honestly.INFP-T
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2018-03-05 at 4:53 PM UTC in How Plants Communicate and ThinkOn plant cognition:
In 2017 biologists from University of Birmingham announced, that they found decision-making center in Arabidopsis…
…Evidence of the plant's minimal cognition of spacial awareness can be seen in their root allocation in regards to neighboring plants.[14]The organization of these roots have been found to originate from the root tip of plants…
…In 2016, a research team led by Professor Monica Gagliano from the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Evolutionary Biology set how to test whether plants learn to respond to predicted events in their environment. The research demonstrated that plants were capable of learning the association between the occurrence of one event and the anticipation of another event (i.e. Pavlovian learning).[16] By experimentally demonstrating associative learning in plants, this finding qualified plants as proper subjects of cognitive research…
…while plants do not have "neurons" as are discussed with animals, they possess an information-processing system composed of cells.
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2018-03-05 at 4:37 PM UTC in is there a reason why a lot of things in nature are shaped like genitals?Because nature is trippy and crazy and you're a part of it.
