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A tree adapts to its environment and I would bet money that trees in their phenomenology can’t count.
by zwkrt 5y ago
A tree adapts to its environment and I would bet money that trees in their phenomenology can’t count.
- robbrown451 5y agoThey don't design spaceships either.
- scoopertrooper 5y agoOf which we are aware.
- civildude 5y agomycelia microcosm intensifies
- minikites 5y agoNature counts all the time: tree rings, the angles of petals or leaves, the packing shapes for seeds.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 5y agoVenus flytraps even count the number of their spikes that were moved during a certain interval of time to know whether to close or stay open.
- slver 5y agoLots of animals have been verified to understand and use abstract count which is what numbers are at their basics. Plants are much less adaptive than animals by definition. The problem isn’t whether they know numbers but how do you even test what plants “know”.
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- trashtester 5y agoWell, in a very primitive and non-accurate sense, it counts/measures the number of (photo synthesis generating) photons hitting each leaves, and then grows in directions that maximizes its photo synthesis. Since a tree has a much lower number of branches and leaves than there are photons, there has to be some aggregation of information involved in this computational process.