Plants cannot "think and remember," but there's nothing stupid about them
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From: PD on 22 Jul 2010 01:09 On Jul 19, 2:50 pm, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On a sunny day (Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:03:22 -0500) it happened Sam Wormley > <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote in <xqWdnTkYl7bnPNnRnZ2dnUVZ_u-dn...(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. You have a strange notion about what memory is. Most people consider memory to be a function of the brain, not of DNA. PD |