Anton Petrov, Jan. 20, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Kelly Ani, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Mindblowing video of plants talking to each other in real time
(Anton Petrov) Plants communicate with each other. It's not just a suspicion or metaphor. Scientists have figured out how to make it visual with fluorescence. #plant #communication #biology
- 0:00 Plants talking to each other
- 0:45 Types of plants communications
- 1:30 Volatile compounds released by plants
- 2:20 What these compounds do
- 3:20 Nicotine example
- 3:45 Volatiles used in communication
- 4:15 How this was achieved
- 5:25 What proteins were used
- 5:50 How leaves react
- 6:30 Why are leaves doing this?
- 7:30 Conclusions
Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY
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| With the vine of the dead and two other MAOI inhibitory plants allow me to see the unseen. |
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| "Be more empathetic," Canny the cannabis says |
When plants hear a fellow plant in distress, they respond by producing terpenes, alkaloids, and bitter chemicals to dissuade creatures from eating them.
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| What's in ayahuasca? Just plants and their DMT |
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| How about you tell your dad not to slaughter me, and I'll give your family milk in return? |
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| My daughter says we're going vegan. |
Similarly, the stress chemicals that go into their tissue as they die in great stress are consumed by meat eaters and have an addictive stimulant action.
This is almost certainly why in Voodoo and Santeria and the "dark arts" of French New Orleans, priests and priestesses in scary rituals dance around provoking chickens before slaughtering them (to the delight of invisible and inimical ghouls) and then drinking their blood.
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| Poppy flowers pack a surprise when injured. |
So it serves an obvious purpose to communicate and sense the forest and field of a changing environment.
Plants surround themselves with a "fog" of scents (plant volatile compounds) to communicate with each other all of the time by odor.
"Consciousness"?
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| Of course I'm sensate! Y'all are deaf and blind! |
This means plants can
- hear (the humming of bees, to which they respond by increasing the sweetness of their nectar),
- smell,
- experience tactile sensations (like being torn apart by bugs),
- evaluate (think/calculate/figure -- respond to their environment),
- see light in different waves (attracting and reflecting waves to their advantage; e.g., when flowers do not seem bright to us due to our eyesight and sensitivity, they are florescent and throbbing to insects and their eyesight and range because the plants are trying to attract useful pollinators), and when they are the different shades of green, as is seen in lush Ireland with all its deva plant helpers (the fae, sidhe, and wee folk), and some oddly colored varieties of seaweed, which are not all bright green but vary according to depth and surroundings to maximize the wavelengths of sunlight they absorb.
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| The jungle is alive, literally alive |
That book does not limit this kind of basic consciousness to plants but to microscopic creatures -- some of them blending plant and animal features, like bodies with purposeful motility and the presence of chlorophyll. Look at algae through a microscope. They are little green bugs. Spirulina, chlorella, blue-green algae, plankton, it's all alive. Mats and sheets on water, all alive, and "vegetal," which like the word "vegetarian" means not coming from or subsisting on vegetables but "growing."
The effects of mushrooms, the fruiting bodies of the almighty mycelia, are legendary. What are these plants communicating to each other and as the original web and internet of plants? The forest utterly depends on the mycelium growing among the roots of trees, transporting nutrients, moisture, and sugars between species of trees, making what we see as stands of trees possible. Interspecies communication exists. (Even some humans can do it, animal psychics and shamans connecting to animal and plant spirits).
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| Buddhism on evolution: Agganna Sutta |
That's five senses. Do they possess the sixth, which would give them self-reflection and awareness of things beyond their immediate environment. Are they capable of abstract thoughts? That will become the question now that we know and slowly begin to accept that consciousness is imminent.
And if plants can, can AI? Why not? Clearly, Jagadish Bose demonstrated empirically, it wasn't only plants that had a secret life going, inanimate objects like metals did, too. Wow. Animists were right, it seems. Consciousness is everywhere, even if objects themselves are not the source of it. After all, we are not little self-contained computers walking about. We are more like little transistor radios walking around, talking (or making sounds out of our speakers), but it isn't us. There's a radio station somewhere high above, a Source radio emitter station sending out the sounds and information we are accessing.
- *Pichersky, Eran; Gershenzon, Jonathan (2002). "The formation and function of plant volatiles: Perfumes for pollinator attraction and defense." Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 5 (3): 237–243. doi:10.1016/S1369-5266(02)00251-0. PMID 11960742.
- *Kessler, A.; Baldwin, I. T. (2001). "Defensive Function of Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatile Emissions in Nature." Science. 291 (5511): 2141–2144. Bibcode:2001Sci...291.2141K. doi:10.1126/science.291.5511.2141. PMID 11251117.
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