Plants can think and remember?

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Not quite.  The BBC article titled Plants ‘can think and remember’ is sensationalist but nonetheless interesting.  This article attempts to convey that plants may have a crude way of processing information that is akin to a nervous system.  Differential responses may be possible depending on a “memory” of interactions with light.  Actions on one part of the plant may spread and act on the whole of the plant.

What we found interesting about this article is that some of the descriptions of how information is communicated inside of the plant really did resemble descriptions of nervous system activities, even though the similarities may end at the language used to describe.  The activity of thought needs to be understood in a global, holistic manner, and more and more do we see such descriptions permeating advances in the sciences.

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