Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Oct 12, 2010
http://www.ted.com Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.
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Excellent :)
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plants are gay, i love them
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@TerminalSulcus Well, you have a very valid point. Thank you.
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@TerminalSulcus What you say is at the base of mindless and selfish nationalism... If he decided to express himself in English it's because he expressed have interest in the language, you see, he must have decided to cherish it himself.
The other question is, if he decided to speak plain italian, how many people would have been whining about that? And then asking, why should he care about people not understanding him? (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
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@TheLiberalSoup she's so memeable. xD
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@TabuaGerenteDoItau no, hes a brilliance-ist
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@ameritz16 - yes you do bose showed plants feel pain too - you are murderer
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hmm
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@ameritz16 yup
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@gspahr Well be fair to the guy. He spent his time in a botony lab and not a elocution lab. Brilliant mind. The quality of the thoughts and the passion for his work outweighed any small effort to understand him. There are a lot of native English speakers who're at the same level of diction but haven't near as many wonderful things to say.
ratholin 1 year ago 35
Absolutely fascinating stuff. Excellent talk!
PhantomofFire 1 year ago 5