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Re: Plants can detect sound

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Post by quietbritishjim »

memen wrote: post #61
quietbritishjim wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're going to categorise senses into the usual five, which is what seems to be going on here, then hot, cold and pain are going to count as "touch" too. Those aren't about measuring motion so this explanation doesn't seem to work.

> Although in some cultures five human senses were traditionally identified as such (namely sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing), it is now recognized that there are many more. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

Yes of course (e.g. orientation from inner ear; proprioception; and others). But the context of the conversation was about the traditional understanding of "touch". I was trying to avoid the commenter I was replying to backing out of their point saying that they considered hot/cold and pain to be separate senses.

Re: Plants can detect sound

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Post by patrickscoleman »

throw0101b wrote: post #75
kilolima wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Annihilation is more a shameless remake of Stalker, as far as going into a "Zone" where an alien influence has changed the nature of reality.

The move Annihilation was based on the book of the same name (first of a trilogy): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation_(VanderMeer_novel...

VanderMeer wrote the introduction for the new (Modern Library) edition of “The Day of the Triffids”!

Re: Plants can detect sound

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Post by adyashakti »

this is old news. we were doing experiments with plants and music back in the 1960s. but nobody liked our results because we found that modern styles are toxic, and ancient vedic sacred chants are the most nourishing sound vibrations.

Re: Plants can detect sound

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Post by lacrimacida »

IshKebab wrote: post #34

I was reading about this last week and the thing that struck me is that every experiment was "plants respond more to than ", or male voices vs female voices or swearing vs compliments. It's total pseudoscience designed to generate comedy science articles and press releases. If anyone actually cared about this they'd be playing sine waves and white noise at various frequencies and amplitudes. You'd see a graph of grow…

Science for clicks

Re: Plants can detect sound

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Post by yieldcrv »

next up: plants suffer and try to avoid suffering, vegans die out due to inability to reduce suffering or move the goal post to something selfishly convenient just like everyone else.

just a matter of time.

Re: Plants can detect sound

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Post by petemir »

yieldcrv wrote: post #86

next up: plants suffer and try to avoid suffering, vegans die out due to inability to reduce suffering or move the goal post to something selfishly convenient just like everyone else. just a matter of time.

Surely this study has been funded by the meat industry.

Re: Plants can detect sound

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Post by Ensorceled »

belter wrote: post #76
Ensorceled wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "plants don't have ears" part of the original title was, at best, unnecessarily folksy.

Guidelines say: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

I'm saying is probably click bait.

Re: Plants can detect sound

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Post by hombre_fatal »

yieldcrv wrote: post #86

next up: plants suffer and try to avoid suffering, vegans die out due to inability to reduce suffering or move the goal post to something selfishly convenient just like everyone else. just a matter of time.

It should be a red flag when you're hoping for huge shake-up discoveries in the future to justify your behavior today.
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