Plants aren’t as simple as you think they are

This article from The New York Times should be required reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/science/10plant.html?_r=2&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

It’s titled “Loyal to its Roots” and probably it’s going to come as a big surprise — one you shouldn’t miss.

At some point this will be recognized as one more blow to the “mechanistic universe” theory that has done so much harm to our civilization. What’s in this story is entirely congruent with what the guys upstairs have been saying for more than seven years.