Are trees sentient?

[Tom Dunlap]

Another book about trees communicating.

Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

The long read: In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with and look after each other has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence?

www.theguardian.com

One Shigo-ism that I pay attention to is tobe careful not to mix or blend botany and biology. Many years before Suzanne Simard wrote about trees'talking' I remember a session in a Shigo class where Dr S went into micorhizae. The word I remember was 'communicated' not talk. The chemical signals sent back and forth were important to each plant.

A side story in the news today was about thee repair job done on Voyager 1 is amazing. More communication

Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

Engineers spent months working to repair link with Earth’s most distant spacecraft, says space agency

www.theguardian.com

 

[RogerM]

Peter Wohlleben Thinks they are...

 

[data farm 26]

Imo all things are sentient since the all is mind, the universe is mental.

 

[Evo]

The crappy analogy I have is my past life in herpticulture (reptiles). The common narrative is that they are dumb almost robotic animals that only respond to stimuli. This couldn’t be further than the truth. They are highly evolved and arguably much more so than mammals. They have senses we cannot fathom.
Yet our issue is relating to things we cannot experience ourselves.