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Well, I've heard of ipods....

Eye see a GA in your future...

Here's lookin' at you kid...

Bogartus Louckins...

But on a certain level, plants might think that we're visually limited....

... It knows quite a bit, much more than we give them credit for.

Quite a reach stating the belief (with limited facts) that plants can also think. Enough said.

If you misuse language any old funny way you want, you can say anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdmzHf4pUcA&feature=fvsr

Those were fascinating! I wish there had been some explanation, and also some scale factors for the time-lapse photography.

Yep, and pretty soon they will tell us that plants think too. Then we'll see the formation of groups like, the "People for the Ethical Treament of Plants".

Does that mean we meat eaters can go and protest against vegetarians?

I see protesters holding BIG signs saying.........."GIVE MEAT A CHANCE".

Exactly. Chamovitz' claims dilute and generalise words to where they can mean anything he wants them to mean whilst giving him plenty of room to hedge on their meanings should anyone challenge his claims. The word 'see', for instance, has pretty standard, generally-accepted definitions. In Chamovitz' hands, 'see' could even mean 'sensing gamma rays by virtue of getting cancer through DNA strand-breaking via ionization.' Why not? It's just as biochemically-based as seeing red. Watching a sneak IMAX preview of The Hobbit in 3D K-U Band Microwave tonite. BYOP (bring your own popcorn, so it can see too). Everyone's invited. :-))

If "see" and "sense" are equivalent, it would be silly to think that plants don't.

Okay, it's true, I've been spending a lot of time with the plants lately. Maybe I just can't get enough of it. I confess, the relationship I have with my tomato plants could be described as "worship". They are awesome pets, as funny as any cat or dog. They talk with their leaves, like a dog or cat does with their ears. They curl their leaves down at night - and they'll do the same thing if it's foggy or dark for days or if you stick em indoors in a corner. My potato leaf tomato plants use their leaves to shield their blossoms and fruit when the sun is blazing. Making a little microclimate to help it along. If there's no leaf handy, they'll put out a shoot to do the job, and put a little umbrella in place.

Sure they know I'm going to eat their fruit and save the seeds, and that's okay, enit. It's what we do, it's why they're here.