Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!tektronix!gam From: gam@tektronix.UUCP (Gregory Muth) Newsgroups: net.veg Subject: Re: Did you see it too? Message-ID: <1725@tektronix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 07:13:08 EST Article-I.D.: tektroni.1725 Posted: Tue Jan 31 07:13:08 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 13:16:22 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 26 How do you know the plant in question was screaming? Perhaps it didn't care for or even despised its neighbor and was revelling in murderous ecstasy as the other plant was being slaughtered, and when the human who killed it came back in the room, the plant congratulated him... One must remember that the sounds being emitted from electronic sensing equipment are produced by that equipment, and not by the object being monitored. I don't doubt that the experiment measured electircal activity in the plant, so the only conclusion that can be made is that there was an alteration in electrical activity. A possible explanation, of which there are no doubt many, is that the first plant, when destroyed, dumped some chemicals into the air that the second plant detected and reacted to. The human who destroyed the plant would surely have received a large dose of these chemicals, so when he approached the second plant, it again reacted. A Psychologist named Rosenthal said something to the effect that if we don't remain objective, what we see is usually what we are looking for. Greg Muth ...decvax!tektronix!gam [UUCP] ...gam!tektronix@rand-relay [ARPA]