This Is How Plants Talk to Each Other
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2022
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Hmm i always wanted to compare Quotes
I like to draw similarities and differences in the manner in which they are delivered
some are inspirational and some just something.
omg you have lost those chubby chipmunk cheeks....way more handsome dapper guy
whats with the wierder and wierder moustache?!
I couldn't watch anything past the 10:25/10:30 min mark for lack of being able to pay attention because I was to busy creased up laughing at the Papa smurf nude pics you said you caught your ex bird looking at, PMSL 😂😂😂
ThatVeganTeacher: noooo we can’t eat the animals, they have feelings!
Plants: *am i a joke to you?*
Save the baby onions!
Vegan are murderers
They deflect, Because it breaks their hearts 💔 to Honestly to this #Truth❗️
Upsss, they got nothing to eat 😅
I feel so guilty
Well, plants don't have feelings animals do. Even if you say plants feel pain which is impossible because they don't have nervous system and are not sentient, number of plants killed is far more when animals are killed. Plant intelligence is not plant sentience, plant commination is intelligence, computer is intelligent can take signal input but it's not sentient.
Let’s be honest. We wouldn’t want to admit the possibility that plants are conscious and intelligent. The guilt of how we treat nature would be too much (hopefully)
Vegans will be pissed 🤣🤣🤣
@@chasindigo LMAO yep!!!
@@chasindigo you do understand you cause more plants to be eaten by eating the animals, right?
@Buford torkelton so? Plants are plants. And still that would be an even bigger argument for veganism, as eating the fruits and vegetables of plants doesn't kill them.
@@boaz08 I don't care what you eat, none of my business.
Evangelical Vegans make it your business and that fact it is cruel to eat intelligent animals and their potential offspring (ie: eggs)
I put it to you that eating a tomato is exactly the same thing.
Hence my first comment.
My planty and my pluncle have been telling me things for years! And whenever they watch me play, they always root for me! Although sometimes I just wish they wood leaf me alone. Oh well. I am part of the family tree and not just a branch or off shoot.
dad?
Cringe
And what is the latest book you published ❓️
🥗 Vegan are murderers 😟
They deflect, Because it breaks their hearts 💔 to Honestly Face up to this #Truth❗️
I don't know you, but i need you to know you are the best.
My mother was a firm believer of the conscious plant theory. She always said if you talk to your house plants, they will be happier and grow better, and also, if you tear a leaf off a plant, it can feel it and responds to it. I have to say, I believe this, too.
Just goes to show that every living thing on the planet has some form of way to communicate with one another
Kind of logical given the fact that they are living organisms.
Says the Guy without a mustache
Your guarded premise is misplaced in light of the recent discovery of a common method of communication between living entities by using sub atomic quantum entanglement to facilitate the transmission of signals
Interacting with your environment is one of the first things something living will try to do, and communication is part of that.
I feel like I've seen you before-
Having recently attempted communication with my ex wife , and got nowhere, i now understand that I’d get more sense from a vegetable. So this is very useful. ..
There's special trees in Africa that have killed thousands of antelope. When herds start feeding on the trees, they release a distress signal and make themselves poisonous.
Acacia. It killed thousands of Kudu by ramping up its tannin levels in response to being overeaten. The increased tannin killed all the bacteria in the Kudu's stomach necessary for digestion. The animals starved to death with full stomachs. Once the threat had disappeared, the tannin levels returned to normal.
Poison is in fact very common defense mechanism for plants.
@@whazzup_teacup It's not so much that it uses poison, it's that it 'selectively' uses poison only when it's being overeaten. It tolerates being eaten a reasonable amount but ramps tannin up when its existence is threatened and communicates it to all the other acacia around it. Giraffes are aware of this and always take only a nibble or two then move upwind to the acacia that hasn't been warned.
@@Knapweed I was talking about plants in general but thanks for in depth explanation.
@@whazzup_teacup Yep, sorry wasn't trying to be a smartarse, It's just that the story fascinates me exposing the drama that is Nature, all but invisible to us humans.
Plants are so fascinating! I knew they can clone themselves, communicate, move around, detect threats, but the memory thing was new. Awesome.
@@ZentaBon Oh yes, my ping is always very good. 👍
If someone would've asked in middle school what's worst about biology I'd say plants because they don't do anything but look at me now, I'm about to be an MSc in plant biochemistry.
@@whazzup_teacup congratulations
I’ve been a vegetarian for years, what am I going to eat now? I can’t hurt the plants! Geez!
Eat the rich 😉
I've read some yogis in India only eat fruit that has fallen from the tree by itself (they don't shake the tree 🤣)
I'm pretty sure sure fruit is dead, but I don't think that's a healthy diet.
You can always get over it and have a cheeseburger.
✨ P h o t o s y n t h e s i s ✨
Eat the Human
so technically in the future the plants vs zombies creators could add "based of a true story" at the end of their games?
Based on a tree story
🤣😭
@@saurav1096 lol
What's even MORE amazing is the way in which plants and fungi communicate
it is a bit like the fungi that infect and control insects.. it seems the communication is enabled by the fungi overlords!
I love how Thoughty2 video titles sound like shower thoughts almost every time
I am a molecular biology student specializing in photosynthetic organisms and I wouldn't consider plants conscious because I consider that to be a property of a central neural network (brains or a neural cluster found only in animals). Plants don't really have a way to respond to their surroundings with the speed an animal can but they definitely have means to communicate and it's very fascinating.
Couldn’t you define many mycelial networks as neural networks? Mycelium isn’t a plant or animal.
@@jonathanharris2570 Mycelium is very much like plant roots and it's main function is to exchange nutrients. It's definitely a form of communication between organisms but it's far from neuron cells. And I will remind that I'm just a student and an actual expert may have differing opinions.
As a Scientist, You should never apply "Human" filter on the Truth.
@@parha123 What do you even mean?
@@whazzup_teacup there's no such thing as "conscious enough"
As someone who studied agriculture, this was a hot topic for a while.
We communicate in dozens of different ways, everything from symbols, pictures, verbal, sign language, dance... Body language, and whatever twins have going on.
A simple raised eyebrow can convey tons of information... I am quite certain that plants are doing the same in subtle ways as well. And that it's deliberate.
There's no doubt in my mind that you are correct.
I don't understand.
😉 😃
I bet they talk about humans behind our backs....🤔😐😑😒
1 minute in and i shouted "feed me Seymour, feed me." Everyone should watch the original The Little Shop of Horrors.
Definitely a great movie!!
“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer
It's wonderful to see plants in their real selves, I can always tell if it's sad or happy
may i ask how . i was thinking about the plants at home if i could tell their emotions .
just in time, was looking for something to watch 🙏🏻
Same
I caught that IT reference, my kinda crowd, tho.. i cant actually code, or do anything in i.t. im good at plants. Footballs soo, tribal, and tim curry's was the best clown. Either way, well played
You see that ludicrous display last night?
IT CROWD
@@ts90000 you see, the thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in
Did they check that they didn't just break the "closing function" of the plant from the drops? Otherwise it would be like hitting your remote on the table until it no longer works and going "voila! The remote has consciousness! It is angry at me for hitting it and no longer wants to take my orders!"
That's outrageous, not only do you admit to violent behaviour toward remote controls but you admit to being a control freak, and psychologically traumatising it by ordering it about.
It's hardly a surprise it's angry.
I just read up on the experiment and yes that is mentioned, they say they tested random leaves after each drop
From what I recall reading about this study the researchers touched it and it closed. I was unsure why it was left out of the video. I'd recommend looking into it as I may be mistaken
P1; "The trees, they're speaking to us..."
P2; "What are they saying?"
P1; "I don't know, I don't speak Vietnamese"
There are certain pines that will try to bend away from a near by forest fire and pine cones unfortunate to get caught up in a blaze are designed to explode scattering their seeds. Great video thanks for the info.
This is the coolest thing I've heard in a loooong time. I really hope these ideas will be proven real someday.
Yes but I hope it's not true because I can't deal with the fact that I have killed some plants, causing them suffering. I love all the plants , even the so called weeds, but I have to get rid of some plants in my garden too. So I hope this will prove to be false or something.
@@dryb3301 that's how the scientist also think, they are vegan
Thank God for this video, I had been constantly worrying about this exact issue for the past 18 years!
same
It's kept me up for a whole sun cycle or plant season or whichever
I can hear them whispering outside my window at night...
Weird to thank God.. Thoughty2 made it after all 😉
@@danielread8549 I posted that at least T2 exists, but I deleted it when I realized we have no proof of that either...
As a teenager, in an altered state, I was walking down a boulevard of ancient wintered- skeletal trees. I then had a vision of the branches, and roots, of the lines of trees; communicating with each other; as if they were gigantic nerve cells, in a continuous matrix. I guess that my vision, was at least, partially true.
I was fixing to write this but scroll down and you get it 🌞
The "skeptics" attribute behavior change to becoming "tired". Ha! I get it, we only have the words we have to describe things. In which case, maybe they're enough.
I know that whenever I've hugged a tree I have definitely felt the life force within.
My mother used to threaten some of her plants "If you don't bring me flowers I'll pull you out by your roots!" We all laughed but dang, those plants produced the biggest flowers.
I will never cease to be amazed by Thoughty2's dedication of creating his own stock footage for these videos. Truly amazing.
Seeing a new video posted is the best part of my day
of course they talk to each other
its no secret.
Bro Imagine a plant Starts talking to you, because he/she/it thought u‘re a plant too..
Bro...
I “feel”my plants, when they need something. Water, light new dirt, ect. Anyone else?
Yes.
Thoughty2 vid title: "plants"; thoughty2 vid opening: "imagine waking up finding out you've run out of coffee"
Do people still know the pleasant smell of freshly cut lawn? This smell is really the result of that the lawn screaming in pain after mowing. Many plants communicate together by chemicals. Sometimes the smell of chemicals invites helpers, for example, if something threatens to eat a plant. They are also able to sense light variation, pressure and pain. However, plants do not have pain receptors, nerves, or a brain, so they don't feel pain as we understand it.
A recent study found they also scream in a wavelength beyond our hearing when in distress or pain.
You didn't watch the video did you it gave it's explanation on how they can communicate through roots and fungal which can be looked at as neurons who is to say life revolves around the way we feel what are you religious 😂
@@vic4316 I watched the video, but I didn’t feel the need to mention tree communication in my comment about the lawn. So, don't confuse the lawn with trees although trees utilize fungal mycelium as a neural network-like or telephon network-like messenger. And yes, he also did mention the chemicals in the video as part of plant communication. Did you notice that point at all?
@@danielmalinen6337 I love you
@@danielmalinen6337 but let's admit it grass does feel :) not the same we do ofcourse but they are conscious
These videos are just on another level compared to other educational videos
Thanks for the great content thoughty2!!!
My onions always talk to me
Very emotional times
Thoughty 2 out there asking the really important questions 👏 😂
The day of the triffids was such a cool concept
I am a botanist and can confirm that plants communicate with each other and use different methods of communications depending on environmental factors. Plants can tell apart the sound of a caterpillars and beetles and will release the right chemical to counteract pests. This brings up an argument that plants may actually be conscious. They are aware of their surroundings, they can communicate with neighbors, and they react to their surroundings.
Plants can also hear. An experiment was done where an instrument that mimics a caterpillars chew was used on the plant. The plant did not release a chemical to counter the caterpillars attack. However when the instrument was used with the sound of a caterpillar chewing it DID release a chemical to counter a caterpillar attack. Plants are incredible. And very misunderstood.
Wrote this before I watched the video and was very pleased to hear thoughty2 address some of this.
If plants are not conscious this revelation at the very least should call into question what we know consciousness to be.
I enjoyed that little IT crowd reference at 1:07
Gonna be honest, when you said using mimosas, my first thought werent plants
@1:08 brilliant little I.T. Crowd reference thrown in there. Well done!
This was incredibly interesting. All your videos are. Good work thoughty 2.
Love the IT Crowd reference @1:05 !
"Sap is thicker than water" Haha, great work.
Definitely , have a look at BBC green planet with David Attenborough, plants are amazing
Thanks. Now I have another thing to think about when I'm chopping down my garden plants at the end of the season.
Loved this thank you 🙏
Title of video: this is how plants talk to each other.
Vegetarians: now we can't FOOKIN EAT!?!?
Very similar to my comment lol
The vegetarians are gonna be rolling in their beds after seeing this.
This is great! I'm gonna use this material to troll some vegans now 🙃
No just leave them be
@@johnsanchez8232 they dont let us be, so we wont
The Day of the Triffids, also became a movie.
the it crowd reference at the start !!! i love this channel so much my god
Loved "the IT crowd" reference between the fly traps." hey Roy." "did u see that ludicrous play last night?"
We will need to update our definitions on how we define certain aspects of living beings, such as consciousness, as we keep learning more about it.
Modern science always looks for defining differences, but especially in biology it's rarely that clean-cut.
Looking good, man!! cheers to you and a happy 2022!!
OK, now I feel guilty about cutting my grass! Just as an anecdote:. my mother was a plant person, & 1 of her babies was an ANCIENT snake plant. She couldn't put another plant within 3 ft. of the snake's pot, or it would throw its thick, heavy stems over the other plant, blocking out sunlight in an attempt to murder it. As long as the snake was left in splendid isolation, it happily sent up bright green, new stems & wavy tendrils of tiny white flowers. The old grouch just "wanted to be alone"!
Yeah, there are some pretty interesting evidence around there about it. And the discussion is great!
the wood wide web is such a trippy concept but it’s weirdly not surprising at all.
Consciousness is that which says 'I am'.
Like I am enjoying the meal, I am driving well today, I feel a threat , I am not closing my leaves anymore. Anything with a first person experience is conscious.
As usual really well done. Love the fact that your content is more frequent now. One thought however Dash this is some pretty out there thinking. Doesn’t mean it’s not true but it’s a little bit outlandish. It would be fantastic if you could cite some of the studies that you’ve read that back up the positions that you’ve articulated in the video. One it makes it a little bit more real, too but allows those of us that are curious to look into the data ourselves. I I think if you did that it only reinforces how thoughtful you are on the subject, and really create even more user loyalty. Again thank you for all you do.
Any time Thoughty2 posts a new video, i just feel better
I can see whats coming next...The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants, free-range broccoli, and equal rights for beetroot.
"you try to help an old lady, but realise she's blind" - *aw well, nevermind, walks off without helping*
Epic, and what I've been trying to convince my significant other for many months!
I'd like to think my plants react when I speak to them. I think they do, in a way, when I talk to them and take care of them. 🌸
Arran's mustache isn't the only thing to worry about anymore now he's growing a beard! I bet he'll turn into Kaiser Wilhelm II
I totally dig the "Saved By The Bell" backdrop hinting at the 90's decade; please say that was intentional?
😀😄
Love the IT Crowd reference snuck in there ;)
You see the thing with arsenal is, they're always trying to walk it in the net 😂
I confirm, it's complicated. LOL
Another great subject 😁
You’ve gotta admit he’s good not long found this channel and been binge watching what I can in the time I have , but yes wish I’d found it sooner 👍
Just terrific, The Day of the Triffids, worth the wait!
Your YT channel, just brilliant. Very educational, so funny. I get told off for laughing for thinking of your content. From an 'NLP' perspective, you are a master. Please keep going.
Loved the IT Crowd reference😂😂😂
I knew about this, but not to this extent. Every time that I maintain my yard, the smell of the grass always makes me smile because to me that's a really good smell. Come to find out that smell is the grass trying to warn nearby grass that it is under attack and that nearby grass should try to get away because it too becomes cut and uniform.
*Leaf 1 to leaf 2: 'Hey, leaf 3 just fell off!' Leaf 2: 'OUCH!'*
Grade 11 biology class taught me this. Thanks for the reminder.
The Day of the Triffids is probably the best book school told us to read though we didn't.
That vegan teacher: “plants don’t feel pain”
Plants: *feel pain*
Considering I’m practically a vegetable half days after work … I can totally see how plants could be conscious.
Oh my god I'm pretty sure this video caused me to have a nightmare. I was drunk and stoned in my bed yesterday watching this video before going to sleep (eventually about 5 minutes into this video I fell asleep) and I think the intro about the post-apocalyptic world made me have a nightmare about some kind of group of mutated extremely strong people who just murdered everyone and me and a few of my friends were survivors but it was so fucking scary lmao
Usually you make fun of opinions that don't align with your own. Looks like you're growing as a person, becoming more open-minded. Good for you Thoughty! I'll prolly start watching more of your video now👍
are u christian
Years back I saw the movie THE HAPPENING, right after I saw the Mythbusters episode on plants feeling pain. I didn't know what the movie was about at the time.
I did not stop on even the grass that grows in side walks for almost a year after that.... and even said sorry to every plant I forgot to water XD
I know that trees communicate through their root system. When a bacteria or fungus starts to invade around where one tree is-it will send signals to the surrounding trees that a fungal predator is eating them. Kinda cool
Okay somebody's got to say this."feed me Seymour feed me"! 😁
Thank you, 42, very interesting questions here. Another question worth asking is actually at the heart of it: how "intentional" and "intelligent" are human consciousness and human communication? We fool ourselves if we attribute conscious intention to our thoughts, and it is debatable whether we have free will at all. If that question remains largely unanswered, then I do not find it surprising to know that our evolutionary forbears and cousins in both flora and fauna share the same will and consciousness. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan touch on this in their studies of microbiology, showing how the tiniest of organisms make choices. Why we find "intention" the question is itself fascinating to me. More fascinating is that we make these choices at all. It seems more plausible that it comes down to simple chemical reactions in plants, animals and yes, humans.
Read "The hidden life of trees" by Peter Wohlleben. It opened my eyes to the possibility of consciousness in plants and how they communicate. Brilliant book 🙂
you should do a video on panpsychism - it stretches consciousness even farther, claiming that atoms have based levels of consciousness! There are less studies to support the theory, but you could cover the exclusion of consciousness in Galileo's mathematical approach to physics! We understand so little about consciousness! Great video btw! :) thanks for always keeping my lunch breaks interesting!
Very interesting and informative
As you were describing the chaos my mind went right to the movie the day of the trifids.
Amazing!
A video about plants possibly talking to each other would normally sound as exciting as listening to the properties of a paper sack. Yet if it's a thoughty2 video, then count me in for both the talking plants and a video about the composition of a paper sacks, if thoughty2 ever decides to make such a video.
I recently found one of your new videos and enjoyed it so I continued to watch, subscribe and like every video. Mainly so I know I watched them. Ha! I didn't realize how many videos you have. But I'm not stopping. You and Mr Ballen are my absolute favorites. Quite found of Coffeehouse Crimes with Adrian.
Keep on keeping on, brother. Have fun, stay safe
how you managing getting through the videos . i found him this year as well . so many good videos : )
@@tommymarco I'm caught up I believe. I enjoyed all videos
@@fidhammer that is awesome that you are caught up : ) i have only found him last month . and when i did , i was like how did this escape me for the last two years ! i'm getting there to watch all .
that is great to hear you enjoyed all the videos , there has not been one i never liked .
you mention Mr Ballen . i've seen his name come up in comments . is he similar to thoughty2's approach .
Great video and topic
“We're packing hot dogs for the road. You know hot dogs get a bad rap? They got a cool shape, they got protein. You like hot dogs right?”
Wow ! What a grate video and accurate information