Big industries know all this long ago, some of the scientists mentioned in this topic used plant tissiu(mind my spelling) in his missile sensors.
Etc etc.
Originally posted by MrsEsterhouse
reply to post by jaamaan
Big industries know all this long ago, some of the scientists mentioned in this topic used plant tissiu(mind my spelling) in his missile sensors.
Etc etc.
Care to elaborate?
[edit on 14-4-2008 by MrsEsterhouse]
L. George Lawrence, a Silesian-born electronics
specialist, began his studies into plant biodynamics in 1962
while employed as a instrumentation engineer for a Los Angeles
space-science corporation. He was actually engaged in a project
to develop jam-proof missile components, and believed that using
plant tissue as a type of transducer would produce the desired
results. He summarized that living plant tissues or leaves were
capable of simultaneously sensing temperature change,
gravitational variation, electromagnetic fields, and a host of
other environmental effects - an ability no known mechanical
sensor possessed.
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BIODYNAMIC COMMUNICATIONS
In 1962, Silesian-born engineer L. George Lawrence, employed by the LA Space-Science Corporation to develop jam-proof missile components, decided to try using biological material in electronic sensors. His first line of enquiry led him to the work of Alexander Gurwitsch, one of the pioneers of vital force research. Gurwitsch showed that cells appear to affect each other during the process of mitosis, which led him to develop a theory in which cells communicate through what he called "mitogenic rays".
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Using his polygraph test Backster was able to show that plants have memory. He did this using a very human orientated experiment based on the game of ?Murder?. He collected together 6 students and had them all choose a piece of paper on one of which was written ?Murderer?. They were all told that if they had received this piece of paper they were to go into a room with two plants in it and trample on and kill one of them. They were not to tell anyone else that they had done it. After this had been done the six students where asked to parade in front of the still living plant and see what, if any, response was given on the polygraph test. When the five innocent students walked into the room there was little to no response from the plant, however, when the murderer came it, the plant went wild. It remembered 'seeing' this student killing its fellow right in front of him.
Plant neurobiology
With a fuller understanding of signaling and communication within and among plants, it becomes clear that these sensitive biological organisms actively and competitively forage for limited resources, both above and below ground.
In addition, plants accurately compute their circumstances, use sophisticated cost benefit analysis, and they take tightly controlled actions to mitigate and control diverse environmental stressors.
Plants also emerge as capable of discriminating positive and negative experiences, and 'learning' from their past experiences.
Plants use this cognitively acquired information to update their behavior in order to survive present and future challenges of their environment. Moreover, plants are also capable of refined recognition of self and non-self, and are territorial in behavior.
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Smart Plants
The question of the moment in this emerging field of plant neurobiology is whether plants are “self-conscious” or not. On one hand is Anthony Trewavas of the University of Edinburgh who stated, “We now know there’s an ability of self recognition in plants, which is highly unusual and quite extraordinary that it’s actually there.” Trewavas presented a paper on “The Green Plant as an Intelligent Organism,” in mid-May at the first Symposium of Plant Neurobiology held in Florence, Italy. The meeting was dedicated to the memory of Charles Darwin, the father of the evolution theory of creation, who in 1880 proposed that the root apex represents a diffuse plant brain. The meeting was organized by the universities of Bonn, Germany, and Florence, Italy. Its Advisory Board includes professors from the universities of Bonn, Edinburgh, North Carolina State at Raleigh, and Bristol, England. It sold out in late April.
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I know this sounds far fetched and I have no proof or scientific background, but I believe they can influence the weather, not just by being there being holders of moisture & its evaporation as part of the system, but they themselves can willingly change whole forests to draw the weather in - that I do believe. A delicate balance it seems.
The Gaia hypothesis is an ecological hypothesis that proposes that living and nonliving parts of the earth are a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism. Named after the Greek earth goddess, this hypothesis postulates that all living things have a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that promotes life overall.
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