Peter M. Vishton
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Sorry, it wasn't 50.
It was 18 in this first study.
There were 18 plants that were all together in one group.
It might be there was one genius sort of buried in there that's responsible for all of our data.
We've started to look and see.
It actually seems that all the plants are contributing to this.
It's not just any one plant.
In fact, one of the things we've really...
started to do is try and get away from all this focus on the Mollosa pudica plant.
Maybe it's really smart, but maybe other plants aren't.
We don't know.
So we're doing some stuff with cotton plants.
We want to see if cotton plants are smart.
But yeah, I don't know if this is... We're right at the cusp of this.
There's an old expression.
It's associated with a guy named V.S.
Ramachandran, where he said he studied brain injured patients.
And people would often critique the work that
well, you have one patient that does this.
That doesn't mean that all the brains work this way.