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What if intelligent life exists all around us, but operates on vastly different time scale? For example, being thousand of time slower or faster? It would be al
by golergka 8y ago
What if intelligent life exists all around us, but operates on vastly different time scale? For example, being thousand of time slower or faster? It would be almost impossible for us to notice each other either way.
- BLKNSLVR 8y agoTime lapse photography can make plant behaviour seem intelligent. The way pea plants put out fronds that 'reach out' to attach to nearby structures in order to stabilise the plant as it grows taller. I think of time lapse photography sequences as how a tree might see the world. The movement of animals too fast for it to react to in a similar, but larger-scale, way that flies are usually too fast and agile for humans to catch or swat.
- simonh 8y agoIn one of Terry Pratchett's books an intelligent tree wonders why the sky keeps flickering.