so if information a Consciousness can organize information processing in brains um it's conceivable that there is something that is analogous to our Consciousness that exists in Plants just over different time spans and our ancestors actually believe that very strongly so if you look at the European

fairy tales they basically say that the spirits of plants are sentient and they populate the forest and one day in carul Land seven years in new which might allude to this 10 differential but what we see is that plants have means for the approximation

they can learn there's evidence for uh communication inside of plants so with view how on the roots of a tree information gets sent to the leaves back to the roots and the tree reorganizes accordingly and there's also evidence for communication across plant even

over considerable distances so when you have a forest in which one side gets infected by uh some bug that invades the forest trees long far away are going to develop defensive mechanisms long before this happens so there is some kind of communication going on across the

forest there's another aspect if you are living next to a tree and if you're for instance a mushroom uh you can probably learn to send information to the tree because the individual cells in the tree don't know what information they're translating they just passing on a

certain pattern and uh if there's another organism going next to it then and can are no firewalls it means they need to evolve to get along this probably means that forests over a long enough time span are going to evolve something like an internet and this

Internet is going to have some kind of shared protocol over which the individual software agents that run on the plants can build feedback loops that extend beyond an individual plant, which allows them to be somewhat non-local in the forest and even move around in some sense in the focus of attention. Right, uh

This is something that I don't know whether that's all true. It's something that a lot of culturists look at, and I, as a computer scientist that looks at this from an evolutionary perspective, I just look at needs and motives, and I don't see how to stop evolution from

forming such a structure. So it would be something that I would be inclined to look for, be very curious about, because I suspect it should evolve under normal circumstances, something that you should expect to exist in nature because it is very useful to apply it to the

ecosystems, and it also has a lot of explanatory power in locomotion control, for example.

Do plants have spirits?

Do plants have spirits?