My son loves trees.
My discussion with him this morning: A tree does not seem to have a blob of brain similar to humans or animals, instead it seems to have a distributed mechanism of perception, analysis and decision making.
I would love to give 10 years of my life to understand the mechanisms by which a tree thinks.
This would be the question of \u201cHow\u201d.
Only after that, we can ask \u201cWhat does a tree think?\u201d, a question for which arts and literature may have better answers.
What about, \u201cWhy does a tree think?\u201d, a much harder question with deep philosophical underpinnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For humans and animals:
We barely understand the how.
We hardly understand the what.
We don\u2019t understand the why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I love trees, like my son, I loved climbing on top when I was a child, sitting and pondering under them when I was a man. Hopefully someday I will be buried under one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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