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And now plants can talk !

 
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It appears this network only allows plants to send data -- not receive. I understand the plants are already communicating with each other using their own organic pathways, but we still need a way to relay complex information back to them.
 
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It is done gently, ultra-gentle type of just sorta feel / not-think.

Anything resembling human thought is beyond their development.
 
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Originally posted by marc weber:
only allows plants to send data -- not receive.



And how is this different than when a wife talks and the husband doesn't hear?
 
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Originally posted by Nicholas Jordan:
... Anything resembling human thought is beyond their development.


An Ophioglossum reticulatum (slightly high on an excess of phosphorus pentoxide) once confessed to me that this a ruse.
 
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