As if it shaped it self to the highest form that seeked to be realized and keeps growing. it hides when its winter and blooms in summer
2006-09-23 16:16:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's programmed to do those things. Now if it spontaneously changed colour, that would be something.
2006-09-23 16:21:27 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Know It All 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass". Alice asks the flowers who protects them. The flowers answered that the trees can bark. They say "bough-wough" and that is why the branches are called boughs.
A flower has imbedded in its DNA a set of instructions for making the flower. This means a flower is complicated, giving rise to the notion that it has a mind of its own.
2006-09-23 23:25:32 · answer #2 · answered by alnitaka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It, like all things on earth have their own energy, which flows at it's own right speed.. what we think of as 'mind' may be our certain speed of vibration..
..the flower has it's own vibration and that vibration changes as the conditions of the flower change.. the 'mind' of the flower is throughout the flower, feeling and being aware of the conditions around it changing.. growing because or despite them, suffering because of or through them..
The mind of the flower.. The energy of nature.. the senses of the plant tell it to flourish or die..
Babble babble babble.
In other words.. yes, it does have a mind.. but not the physical brain that we humans think of as 'the mind.'
2006-09-23 23:26:45 · answer #3 · answered by seaofcolour 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a child of nature.
A river doesn't know where it came from. It never asks where it's going to. It is driven by an instinct born a billion years ago.
What else can a child of nature do?
2006-09-25 00:37:26 · answer #4 · answered by Samurai Hoghead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋