Have you ever wondered if plants feel pain? Often you can meet a man who is thinking without thinking about a flower stem or grabs a sharp ax in a birch to get juice from it in return.
From birth, people have had the idea that plants are lifeless because they don’t move, which means no feeling is unusual for them. Is it so? Let's figure it out.
1.WHAT THE SMELL SAYS
Everyone probably knows the smell of freshly cut grass that is felt as the mower passes through the lawn. However, some people know that smell is a kind of request for help.
Plants feel a danger, an immediate threat, so they release chemicals into the air that reach our odor runs. Science knows many such cases.
For example, plants are able to secrete caffeine and intoxicating bees primarily to protect themselves or to fear an approaching enemy.
2.THE SMELL OF FRESHLY CUT GRASS AFFECTS PEOPLE
Despite the fact that plants stink of danger with such a search, it seems very unusual to humans. The chemical compounds released into the air have a calming effect on a part of the brain (namely, the amygdala and hippocampus, which are responsible for emotions and manifestations of stress).
The person feels balanced and calm. Based on this, it was decided to create a fragrance with such a fragrance.
3.DO PLANTS FEEL PAIN?
Opinions differ in answering this question. Researchers at the German Institute of Applied Physics claim that plants also feel pain. At least they give some tips on that.
For example, researchers have found that when plants are damaged (cut stems), they emit gases that correspond to human tears. With the help of a laser microphone, it was even possible to receive sound waves from a wounded representative of the flora.
The human hearing aid does not hear them, so we do not have access to special calls for plant help in making a seemingly harmless salad.
Researchers at Columbia University have found that plants feel when a larva attacks for their bite, and trigger a defense mechanism. They are also able to detect a threat to other plants.
From such considerations, some researchers conclude that plants do indeed feel pain, while others argue that they cannot do this without a brain that regulates certain emotions and manifestations of emotions.
However, most scientists consider the fact that flora representatives do not need to be aware of this.
4.FROM A SCIENTIFIC POINT OF VIEW
It is believed that plants, in fact, like animals, have an essence consisting of etheric and astral bodies. This connects them to man. That is, plants experience pain and fear only differently.
This is mainly due to structural differences. Despite the fact that plants do not have the kind of nervous system that a person has and that is known to us from the anatomy of school, they have their own special individual system, their nerves, that allow them to respond to environmental irritation.
Therefore, by tearing the leaf and cutting the stem of the plant it must be remembered that they can also experience pain.
5.COUNTER
However, the plants are not that simple in nature and can even give the abuser a change if he decides to harm them.
For example, a lot of such flora representatives covered with spikes or needles to help protect themselves from the attacks of the surrounding enemies. There are also plants that release toxic substances that paralyze and, in the worst case, kill the enemy.
6.SCIENTIFIC FACTS
Do plants feel pain? Polygraph researcher Cleve Baxter, who began researching plants in 1960, tried to answer this question. He was one of the first to wonder if the plants were in pain.
He almost succeeded in proving that plants are able to recognize objects from the world around them sensually. Cleve conducted a series of experiments in which he used a light detector that responded to the skin. When the plant was injured, a polygraph researcher recorded the reactions of the electrochemical electrodes.
The results of the experiment showed that flora representatives reacted to pain in almost the same way as humans. After repeated experiments, the results showed the same changes.
Then came an article by Baxter in which he claimed that plants are capable of capturing people’s feelings and thoughts in response to their desires and actions.
The tests of a polygraph researcher were called unscientific and suspicious because no one else could repeat them after him. Later, Clive Baxter’s demands were supported by Veniamin’s Noevich Pushkin, who worked at the Institute of General and Educational Psychology.
The television show "Legion Breakers" wanted to repeat Cleven's experiments. To this end, its authors decided to perform the same experiments and used a galvanometer that was supposed to show the reaction of the plant if pain was experienced.
In fact, during the first test, the device showed a third response, but the experimenters suggested that this may be due to vibrations caused by their own movements. Repeated experiments failed and gave them every right to misrepresent the theory.
Despite the fact that plants can turn towards the sun and make movements, this is explained from a biological point of view and has nothing to do with pain.
Nor should it be forgotten that nature strictly divided the representatives of the animal and plant kingdom, leaving the former cellulose tissues, but providing them with a nervous system.
Plant cells, on the other hand, contain cellulose, but do not have such a nervous and sensory system. Therefore, they simply do not have pain, fear, emotions and everything that brain activity offers.
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