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The Minds of Plants: Flowers with Memories and Social Trees
- haZard_OS 9y agoThe language used in this article is so misleading it resembles pseudoscience. In a scientific context, memories, motivation, and cognition require a central nervous system and the life forms generally regarded as "plants" do not possess central nervous systems - Full Stop. Metaphor and analogy play a critical role in science communication but, without careful disclaimers, scientific knowledge is obfuscated rather than disseminated.