Interesting Read

[Ruth]

The Intelligent Plant
Scientists debate a new way of understanding flora

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_

 

[mrhappyrotter]

The link didn't work. I'm assuming you were linking to this.

 

[Ruth]

The Intelligent Plant
Scientists debate a new way of understanding flora

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Thanks mrhappyrotter
That is it

 

[2Toned]

Great read!

Personally, I've never had a problem grasping the concept of alternative models of consciousness & intelligence. Tolkien's Ents, Treebeard and bretheren, represent an engagingly romantic example

 

[TyroneGenade]

How fascinating!

Scientists always resist ideas they didn't think up first, or which would undermine their ideas. But the data is compelling and eventually the opposing scientists will die, and their antagonisms with them. "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."---Max Planck.

If plants can think, and feel, and remember where will this leave barbarous vegetarians and vegans? Are they doomed to sustain themselves off quorm? Or will we also learn that fungi are smart? Slimemolds are pretty amazing... Ah, such new and terrifying ethical quandaries await just around the corner.

 

[cnycharles]

I remember an old comic strip called 'bloom county' where the characters kept vowing to avoid eating/doing anything that was politically or biologically incorrect, until they kept advancing to the point where they suspended themselves from tree limbs by a rope so that they wouldn't harm any life forms

Anyone remember Gaia in the foundation/robot sci fi series? If accurate, research like this points to something more related to something like that, at least to the effect that what we see, just like in the polar oceans (ie icebergs) is the least of what is really there (I hope this is suitably cryptic )


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