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Every day we learn more about the rudimentary level of intelligence in things we wouldn't expect- like plants.


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Recently scientist have been looking at the ways in which plants communicate, and during a study on grapes they found something pretty amazing.

Each grape acts as a tiny sense organ, sending information between all the grapes on the plant, almost like a sort of hive mind.

I guess it's true what they say.

Grape vines think alike.

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The closer we look around our own planet, the more we seem to realize that our intelligence is not unique or special. Many factors which were previously espoused to separate humans from animals are behaviors we have since observed in animals, and, sometimes even plants.

It would make sense for the grapes to have a way to prevent clusters from receiving too many or too few nutrients, greatly increasing the chances of a large number of grapes passing on their genes.

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I mean it's been known in botanny and biological science for a while plants feel a rudimentary amount of things. They do experience  a rudimentary feeling that can be equated to pain in animals.. There are many carnivorous plants.. and trees and plant systems intertwine their roots and give txtra nutrients to their kin that's struggling for whatever reason. 

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9 hours ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

IMO "Grape vines" doesn't sound enough like "great minds" to make that work.

Yesterday I did a crossword with collie puns as the theme and one of the answers (which the author admitted in the clue was a new low even for him) was "Collie Baa Baa & the Forty Sheep."  But I thought even worse was the answer to "Peace seeking dog" being "Poochos Poochos Collie."

By comparison, "grape vines" is a pun Shakespearean in its elegance.

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