If it's why I feel bad when old living trees are cut down, it's because they could have possibly been here before us. They're not bothering anyone, they're just doing their thing. Humans are top of the brain chain. But, we're also too arrogant for our own good.
I know it seems bat shit crazy but 40+ years ago some researchers attached polygraphs to a bunch of plants in a room, They then sent a man in and he went to one of the plants pulled it out and tore it to shreds...all of the plants went crazy on the graph. They then had him walk in a week or so later....guess what as soon as he walked in the plants went off the hook...
here is a link to an interview with Cleve Backster ( he wrote the book I read 40 years ago “The Secret Life of Plants” )....40 years later a ton of study and it is believed by many scientist that plants are indeed conscious.
When we are out walking my wife might say oh god that is an ugly plant or tree or at the store picking out a plant from several others and say I don't like that one. I'll tell her shhh they have feelings and can sense what you are feeling.. see we humans think we're the shit cause we communicate verbally with auditory vibrations see with our eyes.. plants "feel" ..I'll apologize to the offended plant for her and tell them they are awesome and she meant them no disrespect. And she still sleeps in the same bed with this whacko!
I tell the trees when I am trimming, I am not trying to harm them, I'm doing it so their branches don't break and damage them.. They know
maybe?
Below is from the full article
Here
Although no plant has a central nervous system, some researchers are exploring the field of neurobiology in botany. The
International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology (LINV) in Florence, Italy argues that having a brain should not
be a prerequisite for intelligence. “We firmly think that all the behaviors observed in plants, which look very much like learning, memory, decision-making, and intelligence observed in animals, deserve to be called by those same terms,” the LINV website reads.
Plants
are conscious, according to LINV director
Stefano Mancuso, an arboriculture professor at the University of Florence. Mancuso’s case for plant consciousness hinges on evidence that they are aware of their existence, of their surroundings, and of the passing of time. Among other things, Mancuso
quotes the renowned physicist Michio Kaku and argues that, if consciousness is the ability to build a model of yourself in relationship to space, others, and time, then plants therefore must be conscious, because of their sensitivity to chemical and physical stimuli, to their competitors, and between themselves. Plants even deserve rights, Mancuso writes in his book
La Nazione Delle Piante, where he drafts out an eight-article plant constitution for the “only, true and eternal powerful nation of the planet.”
