Good article on plant intelligence:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...elligent-plant
well it might make a good scifi bases..to build a brain based upon plant intelligence mechanisms...
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Good article on plant intelligence:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...elligent-plant
well it might make a good scifi bases..to build a brain based upon plant intelligence mechanisms...
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Plants are slow. It'd take a lot of years to get a PhD.
Then again, with the job market as it is, there are worse places to be than Grad school.
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Midworld by Alan Dean Foster.Originally Posted by Mudskipper
Didn't read the article but I already knew plants aren't what most people think they are.
Did you know that plants in the tropics actually analyze *shade*?
Shade deficient in green light is taken as a more serious threat than shade that is equally dark across the spectrum.
i.e. shade from another plant as opposed to shade from a solid inanimate object.
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(John, not the other one.)
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If they did it probably would. This is a good example of the "if false then true" statement.
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