Dr. Diego Bohórquez

And I was just...

thrilled by when he will explain how is he that in the synaptic terminal, there were these vesicles that had like these proteins that will walk the vesicle in the presynaptic active zone.

And that's how we make movement, you know, or something like that.

And I guess I kept that in the background of my head.

And when I had the opportunity to work in the gut, I applied that.

The first thing you mentioned there like intelligence.

I don't know if that exact terminology applies, but I do like this word wisdom because it's reflective experience.

I say reflective experience because somehow we are going over the experience.

Plants have been many more millions years of age on Earth.

than any other animal, right?

Therefore, they have had way more time to actually experience the ground.

So to think that they don't know what is going on, I think is a little bit, perhaps naive is the word.

I went to the main court of these Mayan ruins of Copan,

at the junction between Honduras and Guatemala.

This was a very special city of the Mayans.

And in the main court, you see like all of these estelas, which are like the main stones of the kings of several dynasties.

And at the top of one of the stairs on these pyramids, there is this giant ceiba tree, which is like 650 years old, something like that.

So that tree was there before the Spaniards landed in there, when the Mayans perhaps were still celebrating things.

or perhaps right after, right?

So imagine how much information that organism has in there.