The other was I had an experience in my garden in Connecticut where we have a house of walking through my garden and getting the powerful impression that the plants were conscious. And that these, I remember this particular, it was a plume poppy, or several plume poppies, and they were like returning my gaze. They were very benevolent. They were, you know, putting out positive vibes, but like they were conscious, much more alive than they'd ever been.

When I was doing this research on plant intelligence, they have 20 senses. We only have five.

You know, we underestimate plants basically because we can't see their behaviors. And going to that point about scale, they operate at a time scale that seems very slow to us, so we don't notice.

Also, you can teach a plant a certain behavior, and it will remember for 28 days. So, they do this thing with sensitive plants. You may have seen them in Hawaii, actually. It's a tropical plant. When you touch it, the leaves collapse to keep from being eaten. It's called mimosa pudica. And normally, if you shake it, it'll also do this. And if you shake it repeatedly, it learns to ignore that stimulus, and it will remember 28 days, and it won't react when you do it.

Here's another one: the anesthetics that we use to put us out for surgery put plants out. So, a venous fly trap, if you give it an anesthetic, will not react when the bug comes across it.

He said that pain would not be adaptive for a creature that can't run away.

So they've had studies for 100 years that if you're loving to a tree and loving to a plant, even if you give it the same amount of water, same amount of light in the same room, if you go up and tell a plant I hate you and scream at it and play Slayer or Slipknot to it, it dies. Seriously. If you play it Beethoven and tell you it love it, it just grows and grows and grows and starts having babies and everything else. And it starts going to seed.

And one of the things they found is that if, like, say if a giraffe is eating certain bushes and they're eating them upwind, and so the wind comes down and the other plants recognize that they're being consumed, and so they change their chemical profile to make them disgusting.

And by the way, as a plant daddy, you've certainly heard the studies that plants grow better when you sing to them, right?