Bio-Electrical Communication

Just like there is electricity in your brain that helps you think, there is a tiny bit of electricity moving through the roots of trees. When a tree gets hurt or thirsty, it sends a little zap of info to its neighbors. These electrical pulses move very slowly, but they carry important news. It is like the forest is one big, slow brain that is always thinking about how to stay alive. Even though trees do not have faces, they have a feeling of what is happening all around them.

Even though trees do not have faces, they have a feeling of what is happening all around them. Intelligence is not a brain. Intelligence is a network that processes information. The forest thinks. Slowly, patiently, and across miles.

Bio-electrical signaling involves action potentials (APs) and variation potentials (VPs) traveling through phloem and fungal network at roughly 1 cm per minute. Significantly slower than animal neural transmission but enables systemic coordination. Regulates stomata opening/closing and defense gene activation. Proves intelligence is a property of any networked system capable of processing information. Connects to neurobiology and plant neurobiology.

SOUND: The crackle of static electricity on a sweater.

SMELL: Sharp, metallic smell of air just before lightning strikes.

TASTE: The tingle of a sour candy on your tongue: electricity you can taste.

TOUCH: The tiny spark when you touch a doorknob after walking on carpet.

SIGHT: The blinking of a firefly: a visual zap.

BODY: That sudden jolt when you realize you forgot something: your body's action potential.

Music: Woodstock by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Part of Trees & Roots — NATURE — Education Revelation