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Unfortunately it's posted on facebook so is closed and not accessible to people without facebook accounts. Is there by any chance a public website link to the article discussed that doesn't require a membership account?
Unfortunately it's posted on facebook so is closed and not accessible to people without facebook accounts. Is there by any chance a public website link to the article discussed that doesn't require a membership account?
...... Over the past two decades there has been a revolution in vegetal biology. Science now shows that plants appear to be sentient beings. They perceive light, smell, touch, water and many more variables than we do. They can learn, remember, and communicate. They exhibit the traits we associate with personhood.
Experimental science has confirmed that plants can see when you’re standing next to them, and the color of your shirt. They don’t have eyes, but they have the same photoreceptor proteins all over their bodies that humans have at the back of the retina.
Plants don’t have brains, but they translate information into electrical-chemical signals in their cells identical to the ones used by our own neurons. “A plant may not have a brain, but it acts like a brain,†says Narby. “The word ‘neuron’ comes from the Greek for ‘vegetal fiber.’ Neurons actually look like the cut of the inside of a plant.†........
On a related note, a book on the best sellers list that I'm right in the middle of reading now and I'd recommend: The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
It's about how trees communicate and socialize and support each other, and so much more. Very interesting and eye-opening.
On a related note, a book on the best sellers list that I'm right in the middle of reading now and I'd recommend: The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
It's about how trees communicate and socialize and support each other, and so much more. Very interesting and eye-opening.
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Plants do have brains. When our roses are attacked by deer, they grow huge thorns. If they are in the area of the yard that doesn't have deer eating at them, they have small or non existent thorns. Same varieties of rose.
Plants do have brains. When our roses are attacked by deer, they grow huge thorns. If they are in the area of the yard that doesn't have deer eating at them, they have small or non existent thorns. Same varieties of rose.
Or, it could be an example of natural selection: rose bushes with small thorns are eaten by deer and that leaves only the large thorn bushes left to grow out beyond the fences.
Years ago there were studies that showed plants grew better when exposed to classical music and less well when exposed to popular music. When the studies were repeated by others, they often could not verify those results. I saw a bit on RFD-TV about an award winning vineyard that had loud speakers to play Mozart to the vines.
How can you guess when someone is a vegetarian? You don't have to guess. They're gunna let you know real soon. I always ask them "How do you know those plants aren't screaming in pain when you rip off their stems & leaves, or suffering loss & depression when you eat their unborn children?"
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I always ask them "How do you know those plants aren't screaming in pain when you rip off their stems & leaves, or suffering loss & depression when you eat their unborn children?" 
