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From: gam@tektronix.UUCP (Gregory Muth)
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Subject: Re: Did you see it too?
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 07:13:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 07:13:08 1984
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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

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