Usual drivel. Of course plants communicate, and they can do extremely complex processing of environmental stimuli to fine tune physiology, and they supremely sophisticated at what they do. But saying that they ‘think’ or ‘feel’ or have a ‘mind’ is unhelpful and to make it true you just have to completely redefine those terms in a way that’s unhelpful.
Betray-Julia
Yall rememeber that “what plants are talking about” doc from like 2013 haha?
OP if you haven’t seen this you might enjoy it even if it is hella dated- this was likely one of the first “pop” nature docs doing plants justice and applying sociological concepts to their study.
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Usual drivel. Of course plants communicate, and they can do extremely complex processing of environmental stimuli to fine tune physiology, and they supremely sophisticated at what they do. But saying that they ‘think’ or ‘feel’ or have a ‘mind’ is unhelpful and to make it true you just have to completely redefine those terms in a way that’s unhelpful.
Yall rememeber that “what plants are talking about” doc from like 2013 haha?
OP if you haven’t seen this you might enjoy it even if it is hella dated- this was likely one of the first “pop” nature docs doing plants justice and applying sociological concepts to their study.
https://youtu.be/WscJ0kcmigA