RE: Why is life programmed to survive?
August 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 2:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If those plants pick up environmental stimuli that mimics a predator..they -are- threatened, and no..we don;t assume you need ears to hear....you might, we don't (just like we don;'t assume you need a brain to process information...we refer to analagous structures..just as Pollan did..without realizing that the two sentences contradict each other immediately). I like Pollan too, as an author.....sometimes I think he might owe me money for how often I've pimped his books on these boards....but he's taking artistic license in calling it terror. The thing to draw from plant behavior is not that they are "like us" in some significant way...but more accurately...that we probably aren't exactly as we describe -ourselves- to be.
Long story short....both Pollan and yourself have erected an altar to anthro-folly..which is becoming a common string in this thread.
Long story short....both Pollan and yourself have erected an altar to anthro-folly..which is becoming a common string in this thread.
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