Plants lack a brain, yet they can transmit messages, record stimuli, adjust growth strategies, and emit ultrasound when dehydrated or injured. Whether these complex responses indicate that plants possess some form of consciousness remains to be explored.
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Plants lack a brain, yet they can transmit messages, record stimuli, adjust growth strategies, and emit ultrasound when dehydrated or injured. Whether these complex responses indicate that plants possess some form of consciousness remains to be explored.
For years, CIA interrogation specialist Cleve Backster was dismissed as a charlatan because he believed that plants could feel. But recent experiments show that plants possess an intelligence that our science is only just beginning to understand.