The secret life of plants

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1. NotGManDec 2023
   The book "The Secret Life of Plants" is a very interesting ones and sheds interesting light on many unknown features of plants.

   But it requires an open mind, not something most acedemics are known for :)

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2. bpanonSep 2023
   "The Secret Life of Plants" is a great book on this subject.
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3. cs2733Jun 2021
   For those who would like to read more about this, I enjoyed The Secret Life Of Plants by Thompkins and Bird https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99442.The_Secret_Life_of...
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4. carapaceJun 2018
   Ah well, time will tell, I imagine. :-)

   If you want weird, edge-of-reality stuff that's fun and mostly safe I recommend the book "The Secret Life of Plants" ("Life" not "Lives", that's a different book): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants

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5. why_atMay 2026
   >Discussions of plant consciousness are nearly always dominated by very loud self-proclaimed skeptics

   I have to say I have had the opposite experience. Ever since "The Secret Life of Plants" the average person is much more open to the idea that plants have some kind of conscious experience than is warranted by our current understanding of them. Myths about plants growing better when exposed to classical music etc. are still around thanks to this book and will seemingly never die.

   Pop science journalists are eager to report any new finding on some physiological capability of a plant as the plant "thinking", "feeling", or they invoke the classic Betteridge's law of headlines: "Are plants conscious?" In almost every case the original author of the scientific piece never described it as such.

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6. mobb_soloApr 2023
   "The Secret Life of Plants" -Tompkins & Bird (1973)
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