Plants Have Feelings Too!

It has emerged (in theory at least) that plants have a brain, and this brain works in very much the same way as ours. Indeed plants have a memory and are able to distinguish between certain objects... for example plants see by using degrees of light and spectrum. A lot of green light indicates a lot of plant life around them etc, etc... this could obviously go much deeper.

Here is a link to the scientific article which goes into much more detail http://www.drskunk.com/CANNABRAINds.htm

The title has been changed to more suit the website theme, but it is an actual scientific paper. I found it very eye opening, i hope you do too.

Peace n Pot, my friends.

 

i didnt read it all but i saw a show once about how this shrub in africa sends out signals (chemical) ? to surrounding plants when they are being disturbed (eaten)? witch triggers the plant to produce toxins to make them unpalateable to the animals thus insuring there survival, pretty interesting!!!

 

oh lord what will the vegetarians do now that its exposed that plants have feelings just as much as animals..

i guess they will just have to starve to death....

yay

 

hahaha!

 

Having basic senses is different than having feelings.

But we've known some plants can sense gravity, or light, for a long time.

 

Yeah, the vegetarian thing was one of my thoughts too... looks like now they're going to have to adapt the eating habits of certain buddhist monks, and simply starve themselves to death so as not to harm any other living thing...

It makes sense to me and fits in perfectly with how I feel about my plants. Sometimes it's as though they feel my presence, i can't explain it... but I've always put it down to imagination.

For a long time now plants have been thought to have feelings.

For example would a plant know when a cloud passes overhead and blocks out the sun slightly... as they see by differentiating light spectrums/wavelengths, it seems reasonable that a plant may recognise when a cloud passes overhead... not only that but it also seems reasonable that a plant would know if the cloud were heavier, or water-laden... or in other words, that it was about to rain.

Then we come to human interaction... do our plants know we are there?

I'd like to believe they do.

 

I believe that plants have "senses" that aid their survival. We all know that plants react to gravity, turn towards the sun, etc.
As for emotions? No. And me, I'm a meat eater anyway so...

 

Anyone seen a sensitive plant? I don't know the scientific name of it, but it's pretty cool. If you run your finger across the leaf, it will curl up fast. The greenhouse on campus has a few sensitive plants, along w/ venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants.

Peace and love

 

Yes, in one period of history maybe all plants were carnivorous... or maybe the carnivore gene is a step-up the evolutionary food chain, who knows.


Darwin often enthused much the same thing, and indeed listed a great number of what he believed were proto-carnivorous plants. One of Darwins predecessors even depicted in an illustration the last ever man-eating tree in the late 1800's.

Plants have had a long and varied evolutionary span, just like we have...

At one time it was suggested that animals did not, or were incapable of feeling emotions. We now know this not to be true.

If you believe evolution, then it makes sense that all life came from a single living thing... that's all life. The birds, the trees, the fish etc... all started from one single living thing. Then as the life form split into two, the separate life forms went about evolving their own mechanics to survive the varying environments they found themselves in. One life form developed one way of dealing with it, while the other devised a different way entirely.

So with this in mind, and if all life did indeed stem from one single living thing, then essentially all life is the same. So plants would have a brain, it just works a little differently to ours.

 

I once talked to a bowl of winter vegetable garden soup, it told me it was so happy to be all warm and cooked, and that the mineral content of the soup stock was breathing a new sense of life into their protein structures. But the carrots were complaing there was no room though and I'd put much lentils in. I told them all to shut the fuck up and meet the inside of my stomach. I think they like it in there too.

 

Anything that breathes has a soul, a divine spark. From bacteria to planets.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_pudica - Very cool plant. I used to have one. I abused it, though. The more you fuck with it the less sensitive it gets.

 

Yes, i prefer to call it a will to live. It is not just about survival of the species but also about survival of the singular life-form. Nothing wants to die, life is everything.

 

I've always suspected this... Ever since I heard about that study where they hooked up two plants to each other and ripped one apart. The one that was ripped apart actually "screamed" (that is to say, it emitted a high pitched frequencies measurable by their instruments, but inaudible to us), and the one that was just hooked up to it "shuddered" (once again, only detectable by machine). I heard about it a looooooooooooooong time ago, like when I was small, but it always stuck with me. I always wondered about that when I was having veganism sold to me, but I didn't say anything, because I didn't want to be responsible for them all starving to death.

 

what I wonder is; if we were to discover that plants, and not just animals felt true suffering and pain, and people decided not to eat them, what would we eat???

 

Maybe someday humans could evolve to eat raw minerals, like some bacteria do, but for now, that's not really possible.

 

I know they're trying to grow meat in a petri dish so no animals have to be slaughtered anymore... Sounds kinda gross to me, but maybe they could do it with plant material too?
I wouldn't eat it, but hey. :tongue:

 

Since this is the Science and Technology forum, not Philosophy, I'd like some evidence, along with a definition of "soul".

I'm not disagreeing with you (yet), but science is based on observable, repeatable evidence. There are many paths to truth, but the path called "science" is evidence based.

In that spirit, what is a "soul" and what evidence is there that every breathing thing has one.

 

Plants are there to be eaten, sorry

 

plants don't have a branin and they are not more than a gross collection of some cells.

They are a rather low life-form...