Bumholio said:

Anyone know any cool plants that, idk formed relationships with specific animal to pollinate or carry seeds?, Thats maybe is like just millions of years evolution though. Are there any that adjust daily or hourly?

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Relationship between South African fig trees (Ficuses) and the fig wasps
Fig trees play a vital role in tropical for naturescapes and subtropical gardens like Durban because of their year round fruits, that feed bats and frugivorous birds. Birds and bats play a role in seed dispersal; however, the figs have to be pollinated  by the fig wasps first.

Fig trees and fig wasps have a symbiotic relationship known as obligate mutualism - meaning neither lives without the other. The tree relies on the wasp for pollen dispersal and pollination, while the wasp can only reproduce in the florets of a fig fruit.

There are 750 ficus species world-wide and generally each ficus has a species of fig wasp that are specialists in that specifics own pollination , preventing ficus hybridization.  The relationship is not strictly one-to-one (one wasp for one ficus) as there are certain fig wasps that do not play a role in pollination. There are only 300 known fig wasps.

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http://www.lifegreengroup.co.za/posts/5-famous-symbiotic-relationships-flora-fauna/

Salomon said:

plants are conscious. the roots are the brain. they communicate with each other through chemical means. the same as they communicate with insects.

the chemical language is a memetic  generational evolutionary biological culture. the Mimosa genus is a great example.

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morrowasted said:

Consciousness is a bullshit term.

There are experiences, that's it.

Do plants have experiences? Is there "something it is like to be a plant". I doubt it. If they do, they're almost certainly negligible.

People who try to argue that we have something in common with plants because plants use chemical messengers to affect events don't have a damn clue about basic biology. Everything does that. Bacteria share little plasmids with each other and it promotes antibiotic resistance. Are they conscious? Fuck no.

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trees said:

morrowasted said:

Consciousness is a bullshit term.

There are experiences, that's it.

Do plants have experiences? Is there "something it is like to be a plant". I doubt it. If they do, they're almost certainly negligible.

People who try to argue that we have something in common with plants because plants use chemical messengers to affect events don't have a damn clue about basic biology. Everything does that. Bacteria share little plasmids with each other and it promotes antibiotic resistance. Are they conscious? Fuck no.

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Alright, but still, to who are you to say that you know anything about the universe at all? To say "fuck no, bacteria don't experience shit" is as good as me saying "my computer desk is concious"

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Amanita86 said:

Sure they do, they know they’re alive. I don’t think we give animals and plants enough credit for their awareness and intelligence, they’re just running a different program.

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they are running ph0t0synth3sis.exe