Its not possible because they would need a "brain."
Where would said Brain be located in such a small plant?
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Its not possible because they would need a "brain."
Where would said Brain be located in such a small plant?
They have evolved..... they are just to smart to talk when humans are around.
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Originally Posted by abracax
You are applying the human standard to plants. The human standard is a major impediment to discovery. Remove it, and a wider world is open.Quote:
Originally Posted by iRovster
Remove my brain?!
Might as well, you clearly have no use for it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by iRovster
That is true.
Wow, your last statement only shows that your intellect is out matched by your ignorance....
Do what now?
Since we have established that Rov and plants are in competition with each other to prove intelligence exists in either. lol
I happen to have read an article about plants communicating, that plants near each other put out these special roots to touch each other. They use these roots to pass messages such as, predators near, or to let the others know when one is diseased, and so on. I am still trying to find that article, I have not had any success, as I first read it about 3 weeks ago.
I will keep searching for it because it lists many ways that plants actually communicate and what they believe plants are communicating about. Also a good biology lesson in the article as it explains it far more in depth than I can.
Edited: Ok, I found a small part of it on some blog, just not the whole article.
Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting to be cut off or eaten up. Many plants form internal communications networks and are able to exchange information efficiently.
Many herbal plants such as strawberry, clover, reed and ground elder naturally form networks. Individual plants remain connected with each other for a certain period of time by means of runners. These connections enable the plants to share information with each other via internal channels. They are therefore very similar to computer networks. But what do plants want to chat to each other about?
Recently Stuefer and his colleagues were the first to demonstrate that clover plants warn each other via the network links if enemies are nearby. If one of the plants is attacked by caterpillars, the other members of the network are warned via an internal signal. Once warned, the intact plants strengthen their chemical and mechanical resistance so that they are less attractive for advancing caterpillars. Thanks to this early warning system, the plants can stay one step ahead of their attackers. Experimental research has revealed that this significantly limits the damage to the plants.
Edited again: Here is a link to a book about plants and cloning. It shows that plants not only clone themselves but choose the sex of the clones they make. The book is by the same person that is mentioned in the article snippet I posted in this post. So now tell me who is higher on the evolutionary ladder? We still try to clone sheep.
http://books.google.com/books?id=7xV...esult&resnum=1
Hmmmmmm id say we are. some people eat plants for breakfast. literally.
=p