Plants cannot "think and remember," but there's nothing stupid aboutthem
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From: Sam Wormley on 19 Jul 2010 15:03 OBSERVATIONS: Plants cannot "think and remember," but there's nothing stupid about them Plants, like most organisms, can sense the world around them, process that information, and respond by altering their growth and development. In fact, plants respond to changes in their environment in ways that many would find surprisingly sophisticated http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=plants-cannot-think-and-remember-bu-2010-07-16&sc=DD_20100719
From: Jan Panteltje on 19 Jul 2010 15:50
On a sunny day (Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:03:22 -0500) it happened Sam Wormley <swormley1(a)gmail.com> wrote in <xqWdnTkYl7bnPNnRnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d(a)mchsi.com>: >OBSERVATIONS: Plants cannot "think and remember," An other incredible stupid parrot instance. OF COURSE plants can remember. The first clue is that hey point towards the sun in the morning, already long before it is up. The second is that they know summer will come, then winter.... the third is that some plants produce stuff to attract ants that are enemies of some beetles that eat the plants, when they detect being eaten. So they must have remembered the effect of those ants. There a probably a zillion more examples. About thinking, well, 'more then you' would be appropriate in this case. |