Wade Davis: Interspecies Communication

Wade Davis, anthropologist, ethnobotanist and NGS Explorer-in-Residence, speaks to SPTNK about Amazonian shaman, Ayahuasca and how different societal beliefs illicit alternative perceptions.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• culture
• communication
• senses
• ayahuasca
• anthropology
• ethnobotany
• science
• contemporary
• National Geographic Society
• taxonomy
• Amazon
• shaman
• creation
• sacred
• plants
• Harvard
• intuition
• belief
• perception
• possibility
• forest

[37BopCity]

CognetiveImbias, what's your point? That you know more about the subject than Wade Davis, internationally renowned ethnobotanist? How many books have you written? Until you can give me a list of your published works which equals or betters the great books written by Wade Davis like "One River", I really hate your attitude.

[jvaish]

@CognitiveImbias Way to miss the point. Not at all the same. It's not based on physical appearance with the Aya as it is with Dogs. You hear what you want to hear. Cognitive Bias indeed.

[Zareste]

So they talked to plants. It's that simple

[CognitiveImbias]

This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.By our scientific taxonomy, all dogs are classified as the same species, canis lupus familiaris, yet there are hundreds of breeds of dog.So what if a member of that tribe can identify 17 different types of ayahuasca which are all classified as one species by scientific taxonomy?There are dog experts who can identify 20 times that many breeds of dog, and even the average person could probably identify at least 10.Fancy jargon but no actual substance.

[balazsaboo]

so would i.

[stett99]

he has his material memorized.