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Plant Perception
By: Avery Ockman
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What is it?
• Theory that plant’s are sentient
• Can perceive and react accordingly to stimuli such as:– Pain– Pleasure– Various emotions
~Plants reaction to music~
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History
• First documented by Dr. Gustav Theodor Fechner
• In his book “Nanna” in 1848– Plants are capable of emotions, just like humans or animals,
and that one could promote healthy growth by showering
plants with talk, attention, and affection.
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Further Reasearch
• Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose in 1900– Found that every part of a plant “appeared” to have a
central nervous system and responded to a shock or spasm just as an animal muscle would
– One visitor to his laboratory, the vegetarian playwright George Bernard Shaw, was intensely disturbed upon witnessing a demonstration in which a cabbage had violent
convulsions as it boiled to death. • Also claimed plants could “feel pain and understand affection”
based on potential variations in plants’ cell membrane.
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“The Backster Affect”
• Research by Cleve Backster beginning in 1966.– Used a polygraph to conduct experiments.
• Similar electrical patterns to a human emotional stimulus. Fire causing an upward pattern in the plant’s electrical resistance.
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Results
• An overall better understanding of plant’s reactions to the environment.
• Communication:– Botanicalls– Pet Plant– Midori-San
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Skepticism
• Lack of concrete evidence.– Technologically impossible to measure.
“Pseudoscience is a methodology, belief, or practice that is claimed to be scientific, or that is made to appear to be scientific, but
which does not adhere to an appropriate scientific methodology.”
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Related Theories
• Gaia Theory– Components of Earth are integrated to form an interacting
system. • Earth as a single organism.
– “A complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
• Parapsychology– Investigating paranormal using the scientific method.
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El fin.