excerpt from The Secret Life of Plants

[neon-dubz]

More and more of the impossible is becoming reality.


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[parson]

exponential times

[kay]

Disregarding some of the somewhat "out-there" conjectures simply as conjectures for the moment, the plant response thing has been known for some time. While plants may not be sentient in the ways that we typically define sentience or sense things the way we sense things (nerve cells), I don't think it is entirely unlikely that they do not "feel" things in some way because some can and do produce physiological responses to certain stimuli.

After all, is a Venus Flytrap that much different from a Jellyfish or sea anemone?

[alphacat]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013 ... ntPage=all

[kay]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013 ... ntPage=all

Good article. Quite long though.

[alphacat]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013 ... ntPage=all

Good article. Quite long though.

Yeah, I spread it out over a couple of days. But very, very interesting stuff for sure.

[kay]

It's a good summary of what's going on in the field at the moment.

[magma]

I got halfway through before I left work... will finish it off.tomorrow.

Nice one.

[alphacat]

Mimosa Plants Have Long Term Memory, Can Learn, Biologists Say

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So why are humans so special again?

[Terpit]

They are also the plants that have the most DMT in them, Mimosa Hostilis anyway