Neri Oxman
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Sep 2023
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Now, of course, there is a lot of work around
plant neurobiology.
It's a real thing.
Plants do not have a nervous system, but they have something akin to a nervous system.
It has a kind of ecological intelligence that is focused on a particular timescale.
And the timescale is very, very slow, slow, slow, slow timescale.
So it is when we can
melt these timescales and connect with these plants in terms of the content of the language, in this case, molecules, the duration of the language, and we can start having a conversation, if not simply to understand what is happening in the plant kingdom.
Precision agriculture, I promise to you, will look very, very different, right?
Because right now we're using drones to take photos of crops of corn that look bad.
And when we take that photo, it's already too late.
But if we understand these molecular footprints and things that they are trying to say, the stress that they are trying to communicate, then we could, of course, predict the physiological, biological behavior of these crops, both for their own self-perpetuation, but also for the foods and the pharma and the type of molecules that we're seeking to grow for the benefit of humanity.
And so these languages that we are attempting now to quantify and qualify will really help us not only better nature and help nature in its striving to surviving, but also help us, you know, design better wines and, you know, and better foods and better medicine and better products, again, across all scales, across all application domains.
Yes.
Remember when we started the conversation talking about
sort of definitions in the context of design and then in the context of being, that question requires, I think, a kind of a shift, a humility.
That requires a kind of a humility towards nature, understanding that it operates on different scales.
We recently discovered that, you know, that the molecular footprint of a rose or of a plant in general during nighttime is
is different than its molecular footprint during daytime.
So these are circadian rhythms that are associated with
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