Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The Secret Language of Plants

2017-11-25 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Oh dear, oh dear. I love the smell of newly cut grass. Does that mean - it must mean - yes, yes, that I am some kind of hidden sadist; that I love the 'smell of destruction'; that I am transported by the whiff of .

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The Secret Language of Plants

2017-11-25 Thread John F Sowa
On 11/25/2017 8:21 AM, Stephen Jarosek wrote: Plants don’t have brains because the choices that they make from their Umwelts are simple, and in “slow motion”. Yes, but every cell from bacteria on up has memory and can signal neighboring cells via chemical excretions. When a cell is attacked, i

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] The Secret Language of Plants

2017-11-25 Thread Edwina Taborsky
ommodate energy-intensive choice-making from complex environments. From: Edwina Taborsky [mailto:tabor...@primus.ca [1]] Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 12:42 AM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu [2]; Charles Pyle Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The Secret Language of Plants Thanks for the arti

RE: [PEIRCE-L] The Secret Language of Plants

2017-11-25 Thread Stephen Jarosek
ject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] The Secret Language of Plants Thanks for the article. Biosemiotics is very involved with this reality - of plant communication. And it IS an aspect of 'Mind'. As Peirce said - "Thought is not necessarily connected with a brain. It appears in the work of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The Secret Language of Plants

2017-11-24 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Thanks for the article. Biosemiotics is very involved with this reality - of plant communication. And it IS an aspect of 'Mind'. As Peirce said - "Thought is not necessarily connected with a brain. It appears in the work of bees, of crystals and throughout the purely p