Carmi Levy

It doesn't, like you were saying a few minutes ago, it doesn't need a brain or neurons.

How are these plants keeping track of events like this?

It's this concept of emergence.

Like we understand how a single neuron works and we observe the behavior, but we don't know how the sum of neurons creates the behavior.

The plant exists.

All the cells in it are doing something to get the behavior.

It's emerging from the plant, but we don't maybe know the mechanism yet.

Were some dumber than others?

Because that would explain why I'm dumber than everybody else I know.

I'm going to water the plants in my house because to me, it sounds like plants are people too.

I've always believed that with no evidence, but now at least there's a tiny shred of it.

Peter, I've enjoyed the chat.

Thanks for being on the show.

My pleasure.

Nice to talk to you.

Peter Vishton is a psychological sciences professor at William and Mary.

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