From: "Jerald Hellemeyer" <bippie-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Jesus and Buddha read the minds of plants!
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:53:46 CST



Brian writes:

>Carp writes:
>>"The Secret Life Of Plants" recited all of this chapter and verse in 
the
>>late 60s-early 70s.  I don't know that much of the electronic 
monitoring
>>has been disproved yet.  The experiment was to hook plants up to
>>brain-wave type detecting electrodes and then someone would torture a
>>plant by burning the leaves.  The next step was to burn leaves on a 
plant
>>in another room.  The final test was to simply have a person visualize
>>burning a plant.  As I recollect all of the actions get a measurable
>>response on the control plant.
>
>Sure, and so does doing nothing at all, as long as you have the right 
person 
>interpreting the sqiggles.  I'd love to see the Amazing Randi, debunker 
>extraordinaire, set up a double blind test for them.
>
>Wait a minute...I'm getting something from the plant here in the corner 
of 
>the office...it's lonely and thirsty...wait a minute...it's plastic...
>

You probably would get readings from a plastic plant.  Some university 
students did the same experiment on a bowl of lime jello.  They found 
the same "thought waves" as were found in the plants.  Apparently, the 
equipment itself and other electric appliances give off interference 
that can be interpreted as brain activity.  But then again, jello is 
made out of once living animal parts.

Jerald


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