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burrs, crown galls, sphaeroblasts and other (less explainable) polyps). When I have tried to time-lapse a few of these (Fig.s 2-5), though, it seems they mostly develop in size early in the life of that tree and there’s only limited growth later in their lifecycle. Odd extrusions and growths on the outside of trees are common anomalies ( e.g. Oh – and you can’t visualise anything either, as trees can’t see. It’s tricky – but this exercise can get you nearer to understanding just how weird a tree is as a living entity if you can achieve this mental feat.
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Then you must take the next conceptual step: it’s the skin that’s directly experiencing the sensation, you need to ignore the transmitted messages that are arriving at your brain and imagine being those skin cells on your arm that are feeling the breeze, embedded as they are in a matrix of adjacent living cells with which they communicate. You must only feel the sensation – not verbalise it, nor conceive of it, not reflect upon it nor theorise about it. To get closer to a tree’s perceptions, try this example: a light breeze blows across the skin on your arm and that causes your arm’s hairs to raise up.
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If we just keep thinking in standardised, normalised ways, with fixed expectations, not only can life be dull, but it also greatly limits how we might conceive of trees and their management.įinally, to get you in the right frame of mind for this article, here is a short mental exercise you can try. Imagine what it might be like being a tree: we know that trees can sense things and that they can respond to the stimuli they can sense, but they cannot think: so ‘thinking like a tree’ is the wrong approach. This means there are often things to be learnt from them.
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In this Trees-Over-Time (TOT) article, I’ve put together some anomalies that didn’t readily fit within any of the other themes of my previous TOT articles: it’s a bunch of ‘leftovers’, is what I’m hinting at. We’ll look at a few physical anomalies, some theoretical anomalies and some tree management anomalies – and I’ll let the pictures and captions do most of the talking.Īnother reason to look at anomalies is that they are away from what is standard, normal, and expected. The common question asked is “What has caused the tree to do this?” – and frequently the correct answer is “We just don’t know.” These complications increase further due to the many unseen interactions between trees, microbes, and aspects of a tree’s growing environment which we ourselves cannot see nor sense. Like most complex life forms, trees do sophisticated things that we do not yet fully understand – and odd things that seem to be self-defeating or just plain weird.
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To overcome this paradox, neurologists turn to technology but when AI starts understanding how our brains work, I think we need to watch out! This observable limitation to our minds ties in with what is known as the ‘brain paradox’ – if our brains were simple enough for us to understand how they worked, then we would end up being too simple to understand our brains. Take, for example, the sea cucumber that breathes through its bottom and, when attacked by a predator, fires parts of it innards at its enemy, growing them back later when it has done an inventory as to what is missing. I’m afraid the average human’s imagination is just not capable of coming up with such implausible creatures even our depictions of alien species tend to be derivative of animals we are already familiar with, such that we give our imagined aliens tentacles, horns, large eyes – and, of course, most of them speak English (especially in early editions of the Star Trek series).