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Topic: Plants are smarter than you think
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windymustang
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posted 22 January 2004 09:58 PM
Plants certainly respond to the type of treatment they receive above and beyond basic food, light and watering. When my plants are left in care with others in my family, they receive the exact same schedule listed above for their basic needs. What they don't receive is regular conversation, music, interaction, dancing about and the stuff I do in their presence that includes them as my family. So...yup I'm weird, but my plants and animals are as much my family as the humans are. They respond to this more inclusive care by growing more, blooming more and thriving. When they are deprived of my presence they begin to wither and sometimes die, depending on the duration of deprivation.
From: from the locker of Mad Mary Flint | Registered: Oct 2003
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flotsom
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posted 22 January 2004 10:08 PM
Jacob Two-Two: quote: It's my belief that everything has an "intelligence". Or, more accurately, our sentience is the outgrowth and expression of qualities that all creation share. So this doesn't surprise me.
I think Chardin framed these ideas most poetically: Co-extensive with the Without, there is a Within to things. We have recognized the existence of a conscious inner face that everywhere duplicates the 'material' external face, which alone is commonly considered by science. In a coherent perspective of the world: life inevitably assumes 'pre-life' for as far back as the eye can see. Refracted rearwards along the course of evolution, consciousness displays itself qualitatively as a spectrum of shifting shades whose lower terms are lost in the night." Teilhard de Chardin in The Phenomenon of Man.
quote: Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself
Julian Huxley
From: the flop | Registered: Jul 2002
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