RE: Is It Really Possible To Communicate With Plants? 🌺

[lesliestarrohara]

Beautiful photos, @mammasitta !

I think that plants and fungi are conscious. There is only a little bit of evidence to support this claim now, but I feel confident that more knowledge will come to light about the inner lives of plants in the coming years.

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[mammasitta]

So nice to have you back.
I might be a lunatic but I can understand and hear them :)
I know that some think we are all nuts.
Very cool article :

Plants are capable of solving problems and learning from past experiences.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160221-plant-science-botany-evolution-mabey-ngbooktalk/
I think that seventies generation believed plants were not only intelligent but conscious, which is a dramatically different thing. What the new botany is suggesting is that plants are sensitive and problem-solving but bypass the need for self-consciousness and brain activity that we assume is necessary for intelligence. People who think this are often accused of being anthropocentric, believing that plants are behaving like humans. The philosopher Daniel Dennett marvelously riposted that critics of this theory are "cerebrocentric," believing intelligent behavior is not possible without the infinitely superior human brain. What the new work shows is that plants, by means we do not yet fully understand, are capable of behaving like intelligent beings. They are capable of storing—and learning from—memories of what happens to them.