View Single Post
  #15   Report Post  
Old 19-04-2004, 01:07 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
Posts: n/a
Default Do plants have brain?


In article yrOgc.45$oI2.0@newsfe1-win,
"Andy Hunt" writes:
| So how do plants know which way is 'up', then, when they are germinating in
| the dark . . . ? Does this not imply some sort of perceptive and
| decision-making capability, albeit on a fairly mundane level?

No. It slightly goes against the grain to recommend anything by
Richard Dawkins (he is widely regarded as a pain in the a*** by
other scientists), but his books do explain how this for of thing
develops without consciousness.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.