Re: [agi] Plant Neurobiology

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Richfield
Mike, et al, There are several interesting neural situations in nature. Indeed, much of what we know about synapses comes from the lobster stomatogastric ganglion - that twenty-some neuron structure that controls the manufacture of lobster poop. The thing that is so special here is that the

[agi] Plant Neurobiology

2008-06-11 Thread Mike Tintner
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/science/10plant.html?pagewanted=2_r=1ei=5087emen=484cb A really interesting article about plant sensing. A bit O/T here but I'm posting it after the recent neurons discussion, because it all suggests that the control systems of living systems may indeed be