Brilliant Green The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

it's largely inspired by a wonderful book that was written a few years ago called Brilliant Green the surprising history and science of plant intelligence by a plant neurobiologist named Stefano Mancuso along with journalist Alessandra Viola

I reread part of Brilliant Green and I went out on this patio I have where I'm living now just watched the plants move

but it's largely inspired by a wonderful book that was written a few years ago called brilliant green the surprising history and science of plant intelligence by a plant neurobiologist named Stefano Mancuso along with journalist Alessandra Viola

I reread part of Brilliant Green and I went out on this patio I have where I'm living now just watched the plants move and I want to get kind of meta with this in the in the small amount smarter than us man I mean they know what they want you can't say that about every human that's what I mean it's a system it's a very honed system that's all I'm saying so part of my question is this is also a setup for for an episode I think we could visit in the future but part of my question for you guys this is not to trick you into an interview this is a series of me asking you and our fellow conspiracy realist what you think part of my question here before we get to the meta aspect is simply put this if ever there were a widespread academic recognition of plants having some sort of legal right not just the tree that owns itself you know out in Athens, Georgia but something like something that says for legal purposes destroying a forest is the same thing as mass murder what would that mean for the world do you think that's even a thing that should or could happen I don't think it could but should it well it is illegal to set forests on fire unless you're a logging corporation or like a company that like owns it and can just like do it unchecked but it's a very interesting question because some of the things that I'm fascinated by involve being able to take of these things that these plants provide and if all of a sudden the plant had this personhood you'd have to like ask permission or something but if you want to take the hippie kind of dippy perspective it's like the plants want you to eat them like the psilocybin wants you to eat them like they're part of this system of the earth like in terms of like that the work of these like underground networks of like electrically communicating kind of synapses that are mushrooms that are this like kind of circle of life and existence and like they're not, I won't go so far as to say that they're there for us but like they are a way of interacting with them you eat a plant you're not killing the plant exactly because it's just gonna regrow itself it's like cutting a lizard's tail off like the ones that they regrow so I think it's fascinating but even vegetarians who are so anti-factory farming and stuff they're all about eating plants and they're the ones that have the most aggressive opinions on life of any of us so it's a very interesting question I don't know the answer Matt what do you think dude?

it's largely inspired by a wonderful book that was written a few years ago called brilliant green the surprising history and science of plant intelligence by a plant neurobiologist named Stefano Mancuso along with journalist Alessandra Viola

I reread part of Brilliant Green and I went out on this patio I have where I'm living now just watched the plants move