“Are Plants Aware?”

Last updated on: March 13, 2017 at 9:06 am by Dan Peterson

Great movie. Fun line. — My favorite line from the classic 1951 science fiction film “The Thing from Another World” comes when the scientists realize that the composite parts of the “monster,” which is played by James Arness, aren’t animal but plant cells. “What we have here,” one of them says, “is an intellectual carrot.” I’ve known several intellectual carrots in my time, but I’ve never had to fight one in the Antarctic.
(Film poster, fair use)

My general assumption is that the Universe is stranger — and far richer — than we commonly suppose. And this little item (which might perhaps be read in conjunction with my earlier post titled “Is Earth Alive?”) does nothing to weaken that assumption:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/biocentrism/201703/are-plants-aware

Posted from Falls Church, Virginia