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BTW, I had to friend you because I clicked on your page and found that not only are you a fan of Richard Dawkins, but Noam Chomsky as well. Those two chaps have impressed me very much...
givin the fact that people have had complaints about the intro being "too loud" for what seems like months now, at the top of the page with 100's of thumbs up, OBVIOUSLY TED doesn't read this shit or they just don't care, so please stop complaining about the damn intro so we can have something more amusing/funny/interesting to read at the top of the comments page, thanks and have a nice day :)
@brucebannerization That's very interesting cause I've always thought about that issue. I'm glad you've settled it for me though. Gotta love science right?
@brucebannerization But couldn't it have mutated causing altered perception in different individuals? True that human DNA doesn't vary much but it varies enough to give us different races doesn't it? Also our minds and how they perceive things vary tremendously. Could color perception simply be another variation in the way our mind perceives things?
@TrueMiszou Pick up a book called "the greatest show on earth" by richard dawkins. It´s not all about flowers but it has a part about why flowers do this and other things and some examples.
What i liked the most about this presentation was the light filtering. The other stuff is common knowledge to anyone who has had biology in school (and payed some level of attention).
As an analytical person, i have used similar techniques for light, sound, and data to look at it from a non-native perspective. Wavelenght shift and compression can bring out interresting things.
With so much deceit in nature, and creatures falling for the deceptions, I don't feel so bad about that tranny that tricked me into giving her a blow job.
@1234tombaker "How do flowers mimick what the insects look like? If they don't have eyes ..."
How would eyes help as they don't have minds?
Random mutations provide variation in the look of the flowers and the ones that happen to look like an insect get pollenated and reproduce. Over time they start to look more and more like insects. So the answer is natural selection. (Which is a non-random process.)
The flowers have no clue that they look like insects.
@doGoNsIylbaborPerehT i feel worth clarifying that Natural Selection is the non-random part of evolution, while mutation is random. This gives a random pool of possibilities, where the benificial ones to reproduction are selected, those neutral to reproduction may or may not be selected, and those hurtfull to reproduction are not selected.
@Justgoodvids "go to the solomon islands and see a tree die due to it being cursed at for days..."
And your credible source on this is a fictional movie, right?
On the other hand the Mythbusters have tested the myth of talking to plants having any effect. The plants that were talked to (it was a recording so no extra CO2 involved) grew better but there was no difference between friendly and aggressive talk.
Maybe the plants were imported and didn't understand English. ;-)
@doGoNsIylbaborPerehT You assume determination and will. What happens is Darwinian - the flowers that look more like what attracts bees, have little tricks to pass pollen, are more likely to pass those traits on because the bees come calling...
Ah, the evening primrose. I read about it in Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth, I recommend it to everyone. Aside from being a beautiful display of life, it's a satisfying rebuttal to those who still don't think evolution is a fact.
Natural selection does the job, plants cannot see. Reproductive success is a really important factor, and effective use of resources is another one.
Plants are not conscious, its natural selection that shapes them. Its the eyes of the insects that choose which flower will be more successful at pollination and which one will be less successful. You could say the pollinators are "selectively breeding" the flowers. Also be aware that pollinators and plants evolved together.
@yourtube20061 They can't see other plants. Plants that happen to mimik other plants have a greater chance of survival and will therefore spread. THe evolutionary process is quite complicated and often not understood.
@reafdaw01 I think it is rather easily understood, once you understand that the factor driving the selection of the mimic isn't the other flower, but the insect that is symbiotic with the other flower.
@kusotarre Yes but I think there is a big difference between understanding the mechanism and actually knowing how it evolved and what the involved steps were. Orchids which mimik insects and don't offer reward for example. How did they evolve? Were they pollinated by these same insects, offered them reward and then stopped it? Or were they pollinated by something different and changed their morphology drastically over only one generation (maybe because it is controled by a singel gene)?
Never judge a book by its cover. I thought this is gonna be boring because who gives a shit about flowers. But wow, this actually was very interesting!
Flowers do not know tricks. Variety of shapes of flowers is the result of probability of surviving. Plants have made so many different shapes of flowers years and years, and then only ones who get bugs and animals, or adapt environments survive. That's why some flowers look like bugs and animals.
@Dreamrio You are absolutely correct. That, however, is simply evolution. No one creature is able to adapt its future generation in a way it would think beneficial.
@Isiyac Thank you for agreeing with me. I think, memory inside of living things was designed to predict future environment, as a type of soft-flexible adaptations. In this way, every creature evolves to adapt its current and future generation. If a huge comet is going to hit Earth, what would human do? going under deep ground, or out of space? Our brain automatically starts to think what/how after the impact. I hope you agree this, too. :-)
Wow, that final point was really interesting, i had never even thought about it. Flowers not only attract pollinators, they attract us, as custodians, sharers, and breeders.
Starting to become kind of disappointed with TED. Technology, Entertainment, Design... again a video that has none of them. If that guy could for example hold a speech that shows how this information could be useful to us then, yes, show me, awesome. But now it's just a random video about a random subject. Very fitting for YouTube but not for TED.
Is mimic the right word to use in these situations ?
like The plant mimics an animal.....
This is one of the things about evolution that i dont understand that well,because ppl, and even biologists use the word mimic , as if the plant knows that it's doing. As if the plant knows the reason for its sucsess is because it is mimicing some animal.
@martynwonder I think a plant can perfectly well mimic an animal without knowing it. The concept of plants knowing what they're doing is as far as I know a way of simplifying evolution, and should be ignored when trying to understand what actually happens.
@CreepyCave I agree. Evolution by natural selection *is* a designer of sorts, but not a deliberate one with a mind or a vision to fulfill. When a real scientist (not a creationist/ID-pretend-scientist) says "design" it is best to take it in the sense that "this series of genetic mutation has been successful in doing xyz and making more of itself in the process."
@martynwonder There's different kinds of knowing - the concept of instinct, the genetic imprint; and the active process of learning something. Of course plants don't exactly have a brain, so active knowing is impossible to them. On the other hand, whatever is written in the plant's genetic code is something the plant knows how to do, whether it be growing a certain way, dying in a certain way, or mimicking something after millions of years of mutation alongside said something.
He was very nervous at first... but a minute in he became a professor / teacher. He sounds like he talks to young people for a living. Always a good thing.
It is just immature of people to watch TED talk and comment and say "First Comment"!! Really? You are watching TED talk to learn something! not to be the first commenter!!
great talk!
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What a brilliant mind.
JamesInokeDyer 1 month ago
Wow! Wonderful flowers!
MobRulesNow 2 months ago
He's intelligent and very passionate! I'm glad he loves what he does.
HoboStuff24 4 months ago
marijuana flowers
shakeyourdimsims 4 months ago
great ending!!
americanGTA 5 months ago
Sounds like a virgin. Great talk though.
RamiDowler 5 months ago
7:38 looks like two thumbs down
benswinter 5 months ago
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todaysfive 6 months ago
now i wonder if some chicks i banged were really just plants deceiving me.
1schwererziehbar1 6 months ago 2
wish this guy had pictures/animations and not just still images
NatHarward 6 months ago
i love the guys presentation. so genuine.
hashbashir 6 months ago
I didn't know flowers were such dirty perverts @__@
gregaaron89 6 months ago
A-mazing
qweencmarie 6 months ago
ait how do the plants know at the insects look like
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youneekk 7 months ago
I found this to be quite fascinating.
898431 7 months ago 2
Lol...awkward silence @:45. Great talk though.
1isaacmusic 7 months ago
@brucebannerization
Yes, I'll definitely need to read it soon.
why did you remove your comment?
BTW, I had to friend you because I clicked on your page and found that not only are you a fan of Richard Dawkins, but Noam Chomsky as well. Those two chaps have impressed me very much...
mellamosean 7 months ago
Any group that has both "intelligent thought" and Al Gore in it's into has no credibility.
FactChecking101 7 months ago
@brucebannerization
I want to read that...I saw the related film he made: "Nice Guys Finish First." It was pretty interesting...
mellamosean 7 months ago
"it's designed.. er.. evolved to" lol
PoweredByMagnets 7 months ago 5
givin the fact that people have had complaints about the intro being "too loud" for what seems like months now, at the top of the page with 100's of thumbs up, OBVIOUSLY TED doesn't read this shit or they just don't care, so please stop complaining about the damn intro so we can have something more amusing/funny/interesting to read at the top of the comments page, thanks and have a nice day :)
natedejuggla 7 months ago
0:40 - 0:45
MAD AWKWARD!...hahahah
xtinct2 7 months ago
@foot1647 totally agree! The intro is too loud in comparision to the rest of the video.
tranquiladealma 7 months ago
@brucebannerization That's very interesting cause I've always thought about that issue. I'm glad you've settled it for me though. Gotta love science right?
RichT519 7 months ago
@brucebannerization But couldn't it have mutated causing altered perception in different individuals? True that human DNA doesn't vary much but it varies enough to give us different races doesn't it? Also our minds and how they perceive things vary tremendously. Could color perception simply be another variation in the way our mind perceives things?
RichT519 7 months ago
@brucebannerization Why does having a common ancestor mean we all perceive colors the same?
RichT519 7 months ago
I really like this guys passion. You can tell he's overcoming nerves in this talk.
The hidden ultraviolet flower patterns were pretty damn awesome, I'd love to see more of those!
TrueMiszou 7 months ago 31
@TrueMiszou Pick up a book called "the greatest show on earth" by richard dawkins. It´s not all about flowers but it has a part about why flowers do this and other things and some examples.
TastyPie95 6 months ago
One of the best TED talks of recent times. The speaker's passion & love for his subject is clearly evident.
SirTubelot 7 months ago
What i liked the most about this presentation was the light filtering. The other stuff is common knowledge to anyone who has had biology in school (and payed some level of attention).
As an analytical person, i have used similar techniques for light, sound, and data to look at it from a non-native perspective. Wavelenght shift and compression can bring out interresting things.
gulllars 7 months ago
Genius
twistedbass15 7 months ago
0:45 fail joke lol
EstoyLigado 7 months ago
beautiful!
pedroalberto92 7 months ago
randomly evolving into an insect is impossible,
don't believe me? calculate the possibility :P
redegg3 7 months ago
@redegg3 "randomly evolving into an insect is impossible"
Luckily evolution is not a random process. :)
doGoNsIylbaborPerehT 7 months ago
Was not expecting flowers that can regulate their body temperature. TIL. Thumbs up.
GRNoam 7 months ago
Really slow start but once he started geeking out he became mesmerizing.
ratholin 7 months ago
With so much deceit in nature, and creatures falling for the deceptions, I don't feel so bad about that tranny that tricked me into giving her a blow job.
spinynorman1982 7 months ago 2
@spinynorman1982 did she at least get you nectared up before she got you to take her pollen?
ratholin 7 months ago
@ratholin nope! lol
spinynorman1982 7 months ago
@spinynorman1982 travesty and perversion!
ratholin 7 months ago
@ratholin hehe^^
tossabaddle 7 months ago
@spinynorman1982 XD
spinynorman1982 7 months ago
We are from Brazil and we would like to congratulate this brillant scientist! thaks for this!
felipecostaabbud 7 months ago
this guy really loves flowers (: it was nice to listen to him.
unkaodya 7 months ago 2
@lazyd0g considering how simple the concept of evolution is, it's weired that so many people don't get it.
thx for not getting tired of repeating it over and over again.
liquidminds 7 months ago
I think i just learned a new way to pick up women.
By identifying the flower that makes up their perfume
A bit nerdy but that's who I am :D
pixelbind 7 months ago
@pixelbind It's better to say "I have some nectar would you help me spread some pollen?" I'll be trying that one out.
ratholin 7 months ago
Very enjoyable talk !
HadronJack 7 months ago
How do flowers mimick what the insects look like?
If they don't have eyes ...
1234tombaker 7 months ago
@1234tombaker "How do flowers mimick what the insects look like? If they don't have eyes ..."
How would eyes help as they don't have minds?
Random mutations provide variation in the look of the flowers and the ones that happen to look like an insect get pollenated and reproduce. Over time they start to look more and more like insects. So the answer is natural selection. (Which is a non-random process.)
The flowers have no clue that they look like insects.
doGoNsIylbaborPerehT 7 months ago 43
@doGoNsIylbaborPerehT
Thinking about it I should have known that lol
But yeah this stuff intrigues me so thank you :)
1234tombaker 7 months ago
@doGoNsIylbaborPerehT Just like a Heike Crab has no idea it looks like a samurai.
olishant 7 months ago
@doGoNsIylbaborPerehT i feel worth clarifying that Natural Selection is the non-random part of evolution, while mutation is random. This gives a random pool of possibilities, where the benificial ones to reproduction are selected, those neutral to reproduction may or may not be selected, and those hurtfull to reproduction are not selected.
gulllars 7 months ago
@doGoNsIylbaborPerehT They have feelings, it has been proven, go to the solomon islands and see a tree die due to it being cursed at for days...
Justgoodvids 7 months ago
@Justgoodvids "go to the solomon islands and see a tree die due to it being cursed at for days..."
And your credible source on this is a fictional movie, right?
On the other hand the Mythbusters have tested the myth of talking to plants having any effect. The plants that were talked to (it was a recording so no extra CO2 involved) grew better but there was no difference between friendly and aggressive talk.
Maybe the plants were imported and didn't understand English. ;-)
doGoNsIylbaborPerehT 7 months ago
@doGoNsIylbaborPerehT brilliant description of natural selection.
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@doGoNsIylbaborPerehT "How do flowers mimick what the insects look like? If they don't have eyes ..."
That is a good mistake if I ever seen one!
PopeSnowball 7 months ago
@doGoNsIylbaborPerehT You assume determination and will. What happens is Darwinian - the flowers that look more like what attracts bees, have little tricks to pass pollen, are more likely to pass those traits on because the bees come calling...
AveryMilieu 6 months ago
@AveryMilieu "You assume determination and will. "
I don't think that I do. Where do I do that?
Must be some misunderstanding.
doGoNsIylbaborPerehT 6 months ago
Apparently 5 people that have seen this video do not believe in evolution...
KemaTheAtheist 7 months ago 3
fantastic talk
wanchenghuat 7 months ago
11:50
Damn he pointed at the loading bar and pointed out it was red.
doraemonrox 7 months ago 3
wheres the cannabis flowers?!?!
Zeem321 7 months ago 4
3 people think flower sex is weird
BlackArmy6 7 months ago
Nobody laughed at his sex....flower.....picture wannabe joke. Dork
JosephW99 7 months ago
Ah, the evening primrose. I read about it in Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth, I recommend it to everyone. Aside from being a beautiful display of life, it's a satisfying rebuttal to those who still don't think evolution is a fact.
Jotto999 7 months ago 4
Indeed... they fooled us all, clever flowers. Fantastic talk!
MrJimmyDz 7 months ago
naw he's so cute
Miloglu 7 months ago
WAW, Excellents! Videos!
cariuiba 7 months ago
that is soooooooooooooooooooooo fascinating!!! one of the best ever
OpusOneTwoFive 7 months ago
Beautifull! Good!
sombrasemluz 7 months ago
Good Infomations, Good!
Congratulations!
vincycacau 7 months ago
great piece of information
PR0H0LDEM 7 months ago
how do plants mimic other plants or animals ? how are they able to see, and then mimic it ?
yourtube20061 7 months ago
@yourtube20061
Natural selection does the job, plants cannot see. Reproductive success is a really important factor, and effective use of resources is another one.
Plants are not conscious, its natural selection that shapes them. Its the eyes of the insects that choose which flower will be more successful at pollination and which one will be less successful. You could say the pollinators are "selectively breeding" the flowers. Also be aware that pollinators and plants evolved together.
kurtilein3 7 months ago
@yourtube20061 They can't see other plants. Plants that happen to mimik other plants have a greater chance of survival and will therefore spread. THe evolutionary process is quite complicated and often not understood.
reafdaw01 7 months ago
@reafdaw01 I think it is rather easily understood, once you understand that the factor driving the selection of the mimic isn't the other flower, but the insect that is symbiotic with the other flower.
kusotarre 7 months ago
@kusotarre Yes but I think there is a big difference between understanding the mechanism and actually knowing how it evolved and what the involved steps were. Orchids which mimik insects and don't offer reward for example. How did they evolve? Were they pollinated by these same insects, offered them reward and then stopped it? Or were they pollinated by something different and changed their morphology drastically over only one generation (maybe because it is controled by a singel gene)?
reafdaw01 7 months ago
Great talk.
Skeluz 7 months ago
Awesome!
enriqueDFTL 7 months ago
bubble bubble pop pop
randikajamai 7 months ago
Cool talk.
Greatbloke 7 months ago
Never judge a book by its cover. I thought this is gonna be boring because who gives a shit about flowers. But wow, this actually was very interesting!
GuitarSongCoverDude 7 months ago 4
Flowers do not know tricks. Variety of shapes of flowers is the result of probability of surviving. Plants have made so many different shapes of flowers years and years, and then only ones who get bugs and animals, or adapt environments survive. That's why some flowers look like bugs and animals.
Dreamrio 7 months ago
@Dreamrio You are absolutely correct. That, however, is simply evolution. No one creature is able to adapt its future generation in a way it would think beneficial.
Isiyac 7 months ago
@Isiyac Thank you for agreeing with me. I think, memory inside of living things was designed to predict future environment, as a type of soft-flexible adaptations. In this way, every creature evolves to adapt its current and future generation. If a huge comet is going to hit Earth, what would human do? going under deep ground, or out of space? Our brain automatically starts to think what/how after the impact. I hope you agree this, too. :-)
Dreamrio 7 months ago
Fascinating stuff. Jonathan Drori is a wonderful speaker. His love of the subject is obvious, and contageous.
YY4Me133 7 months ago
wow wtf...that one plant basically evolved to become a kinky love shack for beetles. Awesome.
dookiecheez 7 months ago 3
If you liked this, watch Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
GunnyW14 7 months ago
Interesting talk. Enjoyed it.
JohnPavilonis 7 months ago
Thumbs up if u thought the first picture on left is women's vargina :D
disnanda 7 months ago
I would love to understand the thermal regulation mechanisms that plant was using!
Another great TED talk . Thank you
tetranoob 7 months ago
So, we're being manipulated by these organisms? Damn them!
MultiRationale 7 months ago 2
very cool
shadman1911 7 months ago
78th comment?
pboisei 7 months ago
He loves sex!
UncleJesse1 7 months ago
Fabulous guys!
Thcif 7 months ago
First Comment1!!!
caatabatic 7 months ago
Wow, that final point was really interesting, i had never even thought about it. Flowers not only attract pollinators, they attract us, as custodians, sharers, and breeders.
325982668 7 months ago 4
How the hell do plants, which have no eyes or consciousness, know how to mimic insects? That's what I want to know.
papatoony 7 months ago
@papatoony You answered your own question: They don't.
I just hope you don't see it as challenge to evolution. It's not.
Cyberfrog81 7 months ago
@papatoony evolution
Capriciou5 7 months ago
@papatoony Mimicing does not imply consciousness, trial and error is good enough.
595o 7 months ago
Starting to become kind of disappointed with TED. Technology, Entertainment, Design... again a video that has none of them. If that guy could for example hold a speech that shows how this information could be useful to us then, yes, show me, awesome. But now it's just a random video about a random subject. Very fitting for YouTube but not for TED.
warlord1981nl 7 months ago
@warlord1981nl So something has to be directly useful to humans to be important?
papatoony 7 months ago
@warlord1981nl It's about plant sex. Pretty interesting stuff.
mikeye9 7 months ago
@warlord1981nl A nice overview over flowers, I see nothing wrong with that, I've seen less useful vids on TED.
595o 7 months ago
Very informative and highly enjoyable. Amazing what a no brain plant can make us highly intelligent replicators do.
defminerva13 7 months ago
TED is great! I love these clips. But could we please get an intro that's not 3 times louder than the clips are? Thanks!
foot1647 7 months ago 139
@foot1647
You should try the older ted videos. They've actually already reduced the sound of the intro's a while back :D
pixelbind 7 months ago
@foot1647 yup n also reduce the length of the tedtalks intro to 2 secs max pls?
ididjaustralia 7 months ago
I really enjoyed that
Stealer96 7 months ago
you have flower sperm in your nose
VideoNewZ9 7 months ago
@VideoNewZ9 Nay, a spermatozoa is different from a pollen.
lordmetroid 7 months ago
@lordmetroid point taken funny thought though
VideoNewZ9 7 months ago
great talk :D very interesting to know a bit more about how the evolution has played with diffrent beings
sashakid 7 months ago
This guy is cool, lol.
voidofambition 7 months ago
What a treat! I want more!
AveryMilieu 7 months ago
great talk. serious business. i wanna buy a scanning electron microscope.
pikiwiki 7 months ago
TED you wanna talk flowers? i think its about time you shed some light on the corruption that is the illegality of THE flower... MARYJANE!
Get2TheDeLorean 7 months ago 2
his nose is really bothering me, especially when he says proboscis... otherwise, wonderful talk!
KillerNeuron 7 months ago
flowers are the bee's knees
(giggle)
steampunkerella 7 months ago
nice
magikarp64 7 months ago
Botanists are the best!
Aulacomnium 7 months ago
This dude is like the Barry White of the flower kingdom.
memoryhero 7 months ago
@memoryhero feel the love
pikiwiki 7 months ago
"...every home should have an electron scanning microscope..." couldn`t agree more
kontekzt 7 months ago 4
Amazing presentation
notreveh 7 months ago
lol why do people get so mad about people saying first
UncertainTruth 7 months ago
lovely
mrplease66 7 months ago
This was amazing, he is totally emersed in this world. I love it!
boochompsit 7 months ago 2
Very sneaky plants.
CognosSquare 7 months ago
hes SO careful to say "Evolved" as opposed to "Designed"
ghostdk 7 months ago 3
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@ghostdk that is because he hates God.
CognosSquare 7 months ago
@ghostdk Yeah, because otherwise creationists might quote mine him.
595o 7 months ago
I enjoyed this talk.
oshinsr 7 months ago
The epitome of a slightly nerdy, but utterly adorable scientist who just loves his job. Great talk!
GreyLabyrinthine 7 months ago 81
I'm gonna blow my load in my wifes garden.
MY SON WILL BE A FLOWER.
heeh2 7 months ago
6:29 anyone knows what plant that is?
k1awdttt 7 months ago
Great talk.
Ryan44567 7 months ago
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Excellent talk, those pictures were beautiful. This surely proves the existence of G.... HAHA only joking. Science and nature are a beautiful combo.
benmols 7 months ago
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benmols 7 months ago
Who knew plants were so raunchy
DeoMachina 7 months ago
Nice way of sharing lots of research. Thanks Drori!
BehindBen 7 months ago
great talk man :D
sonicase 7 months ago
He seems a bit uncomfortable..
miganders 7 months ago
"I know what's going through your mind when you're looking through these pictures"
BAHAHAHAHA everyone was silent. Can't have been played better
FLAlVlE 7 months ago
Beautiful
gunnarhilmarsson 7 months ago
Plants are dominating the meta right now freaking Hyper Librarian dam
Slashtap3 7 months ago
Does he get aroused by his collection of pictures?
qttytn 7 months ago 3
@qttytn No, silly. He is simply anxious.
Aresftfun 7 months ago
Is mimic the right word to use in these situations ?
like The plant mimics an animal.....
This is one of the things about evolution that i dont understand that well,because ppl, and even biologists use the word mimic , as if the plant knows that it's doing. As if the plant knows the reason for its sucsess is because it is mimicing some animal.
what do you think?
martynwonder 7 months ago 4
@martynwonder I think a plant can perfectly well mimic an animal without knowing it. The concept of plants knowing what they're doing is as far as I know a way of simplifying evolution, and should be ignored when trying to understand what actually happens.
CreepyCave 7 months ago
@CreepyCave I agree. Evolution by natural selection *is* a designer of sorts, but not a deliberate one with a mind or a vision to fulfill. When a real scientist (not a creationist/ID-pretend-scientist) says "design" it is best to take it in the sense that "this series of genetic mutation has been successful in doing xyz and making more of itself in the process."
invisblchzbrgr 7 months ago
@martynwonder There's different kinds of knowing - the concept of instinct, the genetic imprint; and the active process of learning something. Of course plants don't exactly have a brain, so active knowing is impossible to them. On the other hand, whatever is written in the plant's genetic code is something the plant knows how to do, whether it be growing a certain way, dying in a certain way, or mimicking something after millions of years of mutation alongside said something.
darksaiyan2006 7 months ago
@martynwonder an interesting comment this 'thing' of semanticsor perhaps perception...what word would you suggest in place of 'mimic' ...just curious
gaiagale 7 months ago
7:31 lol, "designed..ehh ehm..evolved"
fishyluver14 7 months ago 2
@fishyluver14 biologists use the word designed all the time, it is both poetic and accurate to describe natural selection as a designer.
DeePhlat 7 months ago
@DeePhlat Yeah, I know. I just thought it was funny how he corrected himself.
fishyluver14 7 months ago 2
He was very nervous at first... but a minute in he became a professor / teacher. He sounds like he talks to young people for a living. Always a good thing.
McPrfctday 7 months ago 4
This is the ultimate "flowers and bees" talk:)
Ignorantf00l 7 months ago
Some truly amazing designs.
Lekozza 7 months ago
I'v never so interested in flowers as I just was watching that
phantomdoodler 7 months ago
It is just immature of people to watch TED talk and comment and say "First Comment"!! Really? You are watching TED talk to learn something! not to be the first commenter!!
TheHickstead 7 months ago 44
@TheHickstead LOL what does it have to do with you, judgmental prick.
doford 7 months ago
@doford
Lol you just called someone a judmental prick, you judgemental prick.
lulhoofd1 7 months ago 2
@TheHickstead Vote it down and move on.
NWRefund 7 months ago 4