Do plants have mental abilities or realization?

Answer 1

We are agreed that plants adapt themselves to cope with changes in nature and emergency conditions. Adaptation in itself is a mental ability rather than a mere mechanical response. I can not see a distinctive difference among mind, reason, and adaptation!

Answer 2

YES!!!
I read in readers digest that they hocked up a plant to an EEG machine and when someone lied, it registered,it could tell the person lied,
i saw a tree by a river.,grow out a knot and this other tree grew out a knot and they grew together so that this one tree wouldn't fall all the way over into a river since it was leaning because its roots were being eroded, i took a picture it was so amazing,
my father told me this. there was a forest and a bug was killing some of the trees, the trees on the other side of the forest many miles away.started putting out a sap that repealed that particular type of bug and they had never seen that bug, how did they know? there psychic.are they communicate with each other.
I read how they put these two plants on a counter,in an office.a guy totally destroyed one of the plants. hollered at it, stomped on it. but did nt touch the other plant, a week later after many people walked by that plant, the guy who killed the plant walked by and it registered a big response on the EEG machine that was hocked up to the plant
I pick up plants all the time people throw out to save them
I have about fifty on my patio i have saved.
Peace

Answer 3

No, it's a combination of cells that work as a team.. but there is no part of a plant that has any reasonaing ability...

If you think of say a venus flytrap which has a noticable reponce to stimulous....closing on a fly when it lands...
the cells evolved to work as a team to benifit the plant, the cell that happened to contract when touched made that plant able to capture food, but that's all it is....a single cell simply doing it's single task.


****update*****
plants respond to people talking to their plant because your breathing on it, giving it more CO2 than the normal atmospheric ammount, don't make more of it than it actually is.

The tree's communicating is just like the cell that works in a venus flytrap, it's symply an evelutional advantage...It's actually found in single cell bacteria as well, when a bacteria is attacked it releases chemicals other bacteria react to these chemicals due to natural selection...(those that didn't move away were attacked to leaving those that were repelled) it's a very common thing, but it's symply a chemical reaction.

I'd like to see the a reference to the EEG machine experiment, sounds like junk science. I"ll check back.

****update 2*****
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE...a plant evolves with natural selection, it never reasoned that "hey if I react to this stimulous then I'd be better off"....it just happens that the plant beside it died because it didn't ....so the traights were spread by the more successfull plant

Answer 4

Yes, in the sense that they can sense our feelings towards them and respond accordingly.