Do Plants Think?
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* Intro Theme * In the 1960's, at the height of the Cold War, CIA interrogator Cleve Baxter hooked his polygraph machine up to a house plant, for some reason. Over the course of his experiments, Baxter obsevered a change in electrical resistance when the plants were harmed, or threatened with harm. This led to the idea that plants possess sentience, that they might even have ESP, Extra Sensory Perception. Is there any truth to that notion? No. Plants cannot see you, they can't hear you, and they most definitely can't read your mind. But, the senses they do have are even more interesting. Plants are literally rooted in one place. They can't run away from danger or walk over to the sunnier side of the garden, They have to adapt to what...
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* Intro Theme * In the 1960's, at the height of the Cold War, CIA interrogator Cleve Baxter hooked his polygraph machine up to a house plant, for some reason. Over the course of his experiments, Baxter obsevered a change in electrical resistance when the plants were harmed, or threatened with harm. This led to the idea that plants possess sentience, that they might even have ESP, Extra Sensory Perception. Is there any truth to that notion? No. Plants cannot see you, they can't hear you, and they most definitely can't read your mind. But, the senses they do have are even more interesting. Plants are literally rooted in one place. They can't run away from danger or walk over to the sunnier side of the garden, They have to adapt to what...
