Hi,

You seemed to have hit the nail over the head. Plants are living.

Rajinder

"Andy Hunt" wrote in message
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Not so Paul Atreides.

For he IS the Kwisatz Haderach . . .


The Mimosa plant quickly folds up its leaves because of a rapid drop
in
water pressure akin to wilting. No nervous system is needed at all.

Venus flytrap?


You really should read up on your basic botany instead making wild
flights
of fantasy. The truth is far more interesting.

An old teacher of mine once pointed out that there can never be such a
thing
as "extra-sensory perception", because perception by its very nature
requires sensation.

Arguments for the behaviour of plants being biology-based can be used
equally for people too - a scientific approach will boil our every
action,
emotion and decision down to electrochemical processes in our brain,
just as
the analysis of a car engine will reveal all the different moving
parts and
how they fit together. But if you look for the _velocity_ in the
engine, you
won't find it, just as if you look for the _soul_ in a person's body
you
won't find it. Similarly, if you look for the _growth_ in a plant, you
won't
find it . . .

Andy
"A ten-year-old child could understand this. Go out and find me a
ten-year-old child" - Marx