Plants appear to be sentient beings

wcutler · Aug 4, 2017

This is a two-minute video on Facebook, with almost 2 million views, extracted from an 18-minute opening remarks speech by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers CEO and Founder. This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.

"Science now shows that plants appear to be sentient beings. They perceive light, smell, touch, water, and many more variables than we do. They can learn, remember and communicate." - Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers Co-Founder and CEO
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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155172240970757

The Facebook posting links to the full speech at Kenny Ausubel: Imagining Our Way Out of the Unimaginable | Bioneers 2016.

Daniel Mosquin · Aug 14, 2017

Author of "When Healing Becomes a Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies"

Hoxsey Therapy - Wikipedia

In 1957, a group from the University of British Columbia visited Hoxsey's Mexican clinic and obtained records for 71 Canadian patients treated by Hoxsey. The University panel found that:

For over one-half of the [cancer] patients from British Columbia, the result [of treatment with the Hoxsey method] has been either death or progression of the disease. In nearly one-quarter there was no proof that the patient ever had cancer. Nearly one in ten of the patients had curative treatment before going to the Hoxsey Clinic. In only one case, an external cancer, was there any evidence at all that the Hoxsey treatment had an effect on the disease; in that case, better results could have been obtained by orthodox means.

The panel reported that in the one case of demonstrable cure, a patient with a skin cancer of the ear, Hoxsey's treatment had resulted in disfigurement which could have been avoided with standard surgical excision.
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I'm sure he's doing quite well for himself.

wcutler · Aug 14, 2017

Thanks, Daniel. So the "science now shows ..." is his own pseudoscience? I was enjoying thinking of my plants recognizing when I was visiting them.

Daniel Mosquin · Aug 14, 2017

Outstanding claims need outstanding evidence, and I'm not seeing too much in the scientific literature about this (I didn't watch the video).

The Nature of Things Smarty Plants documentary discusses plant "intelligence" in an approachable, scientific manner.

wcutler · Aug 14, 2017

Thanks again. Here's a link; videos are viewable by Canadian audiences only.
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