Sara Imari Walker

I've thought about it like what what must it be like to be a plant?

I mean, like, you know, most places have a plant in every room and it's like the plants experiencing the room right now.

Like, what is it doing?

It's like just weird if you actually try to think about it.

Like, what does it feel like to be a plant?

Yeah.

I mean, their way of expressing their personality, so to speak, or like their their morphology is like, you know, like their shape is like their expression of their behavior.

Right.

Like animals can move around in an environment, but a plant just grows.

So its shape is its behavior, which is kind of crazy.

Yeah, it's been amazing.

But we have a hard time even with plants not anthropocentrizing with the kind of experiments we want to do to learn how they're intelligent because they're using a lot of animal-based experimental programs to try to test plant intelligence.

And they probably don't fit plant intelligence because their intelligence is so different.

So it's really hard to say like what kinds of properties they actually have.

These are the aliens we'll never meet because they had no reason to go out and explore and conquer.

Yeah.

But the idea of utopia is like so oversold.

I mean, I think there's something like, like it's, I don't know.

Like, I don't think such things exist.

Harmony for sure.