Sunday, April 26, 2015
Hippie ramblings, testable question.
Hippie ramblings.....
In mammals for sure, there's a shared gene (a unit of purpose) for socialness, hierarchy, communication.
When the situation is right, humans and dogs and horses and pigs and elephants get along better, and understand each other better, than you'd expect for such far-removed species.
How far does this understanding stretch? Competent beekeepers certainly understand the intentions of their bees. Do the bees reciprocate? Can they tell what the beekeeper is trying to do?
What about plants? Are there social plants versus loner plants? The answer is obviously yes, but the social plants have an extra trick. They communicate via olfactory and auditory signals like mammals and insects, but they can ALSO connect via underground stolons or fungal wires. They invented telephone systems 50 million years before Bell.
Is our communication gene shared with plants as well as mammals? This is a testable question. Some people clearly get along with plants better than others. Even when all the basic stuff like water and sun and soil are identical, some people make plants flourish and others fail. Are the greenthumbers speaking Plantese without knowing it? Specifically, are they expressing a plantish gene that causes them to emit plant-understood smells? Jasmonates or similar VOCs?
And an untestable question. When people grow more stolonized, do they also get more plantish? Current youngsters, growing up with constant quasi-physical ties to everyone else, are definitely functioning more like plants. Are their thumbs (VOCs) greener?
And an untestable question. When people grow more stolonized, do they also get more plantish? Current youngsters, growing up with constant quasi-physical ties to everyone else, are definitely functioning more like plants. Are their thumbs (VOCs) greener?Labels: Danbo, Grand Blueprint, Smarty-plants
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