In a plant, a single brain would be a fatal flaw because they have evolved to be lunch. “Plants use a very different strategy,” says Mancuso. “They are very good at diffusing the same function all over the body.” You can remove 90% of a plant without killing it. “You need to imagine a plant as a huge brain. Maybe not as efficient as in the case of animals, but diffused everywhere.”
One of the most controversial aspects of Mancuso’s work is the idea of plant consciousness. As we learn more about animal and plant intelligence, not to mention human intelligence, the always-contentious term consciousness has become the subject of ever more heated scientific and philosophical debate. “Let’s use another term,” Mancuso suggests. “Consciousness is a little bit tricky in both our languages. Let’s talk about awareness.
Plants are perfectly aware of themselves.” A simple example is when one plant overshadows another – the shaded plant will grow faster to reach the light. But when you look into the crown of a tree, all the shoots are heavily shaded. They do not grow fast because they know that they are shaded by part of themselves. “So they have a perfect image of themselves and of the outside,” says Mancuso.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It is unproven that new growth in trees do not respond to shade by its own tree.
When "proof" of an argument is a flawed assertion, I submit that it is not proved.
TimTuolomne
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“The Single, Largest, Living Entity Known is a Grove of Aspens in Colorado” ...
Personally, I think that’s bunk since I would easier believe it is some form of fungus.
The problem with the conversation though is the use of words not typically used in reference to “plants” ... consciousness, sentience, brains & etc.
Plants ... most living things ... “manipulate” their environment ... interact with other species that are “completely unrelated” to themselves ...
Interestingly enough, plants are continually “at war” with other plants and species and form surprisingly strong alliances among several of them as well as defenses against several others.
The manner ... or the “results” of these cannot simply be chalked up to being “Reactions to Stimuli”.
While I would enjoy getting into this topic in depth, it would involve several volumes of information being presented wherein the “proofs” are startlingly self evident. Distilling several years of studies into a few paragraphs would be extremely difficult.
As a beginning resources on this I would direct you to “LivingWebFarms.org” where thereks a lot of information and items of interest but ... it is a tiny step onto an astoundingly long road ...
Bay0Wulf
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Plants were created encoded with the ability to react to outside stimuli. I would not consider that sentient behavior.
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