I’ve been sitting on this for a while, mostly because it got lost in my files. It appeared in the SchwartzReport for July 17, 2010, but it is no less relevant today, and will be no less relevant next years. Things change slowly, in certain directions. Nonetheless, regardless who glacially slowly, they do change.
Editor Stephan Schwartz’ comment:
I remember back in the early 1970s, when my two friends, Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins were writing what became the best seller, The Secret Life of Plants, they introduced me to Cleve Backster whose research showed plants had a measure of consciousness. All three of them, Peter Chris, and Cleve were subjected to withering and largely ad hominem criticism, by paradigm constrained biologists and other deniers who simply could not accept that any species other than human beings could have conscious awareness.
Plants ‘Can Think And Remember’
VICTORIA GILL, Science Reporter – BBC News (U.K.)
Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers.