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#167 - No.1 Plant Neurobiologist: Plant Conciousness, Root Brains & The Sentient Cell

#167 - No.1 Plant Neurobiologist: Plant Conciousness, Root Brains & The Sentient Cell

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František Baluška is the cell biologist who helped turn plant
intelligence from a fringe idea into a field. At the University
of Bonn he co-organised the first Symposium on Plant
Neurobiology, and his lab showed that the same anaesthetics that
knock humans out stop a Venus flytrap from snapping shut. With
Arthur Reber and William Miller he co-wrote The Sentient Cell,
which argues that cognition didn't begin with brains, but with
the very first cell.

Expect to learn:

- The Anaesthetised Flytrap: why plants go under with the same
drugs that knock us out

- The Addicted Ants: how acacia trees hook their bodyguards so
they refuse any other food

- The Root Brain: Darwin's idea that every root tip acts like a
mini brain

- The Self-Assembling Animal: separate every cell of a hydra and
it rebuilds itself

- The Lost Cancer Cell: why tumours may be cells that have lost
their map of the body

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GS EPISODES MENTIONED

Michael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis,
Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyM

William B. Miller Jr. - Meet The Scientist Proving Your Cells Are
Conscious and Intelligent: https://youtu.be/xrV5oGyyKSI

Denis Noble - Denis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell
Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong:
https://youtu.be/xqw-DaWVK24

Philip Ball - Philip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We
Thought": https://youtu.be/9SseGx0R0fY

GUEST LINKS

University of Bonn (IZMB) Group Page:
https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/plant-cell-biology-1/ag-baluska

The Sentient Cell (2023):
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-sentient-cell-9780198873211

Anaesthetics Stop Plant Organ Movements (Annals of Botany, 2018):
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6215046/

Senomic View of the Cell: Senome versus Genome (2018):
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6132427/

The Third Way of Evolution:
https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/frantisek-baluska

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00:00 Trailer

0:02:26 From Plant Roots To The Very First Cell

0:05:37 Plants vs Humans: Different In Scale, Not Kind

0:08:59 How Plants Turn Caterpillars Into Cannibals

0:10:08 The Tree That Gets Ants Addicted

0:13:26 Blind Biochemistry Or Real Cognition?

0:15:22 Do Cells Choose Their Own Mutations?

0:19:37 The Senome: The Cell's Missing Layer

0:23:55 "What Is Living Can Be Anaesthetised. The Rest Is Dead."

0:27:39 Wounded Plants Anaesthetise Themselves

0:29:02 How Do You Know A Daffodil Is Knocked Out?

0:36:03 The Field Science Tried To Shut Down

0:37:25 Darwin's Root-Brain Hypothesis

0:38:55 Roots That Swarm Like Birds

0:40:51 Underground Plant Wars

0:41:31 The Fungal Internet

0:47:10 Could AI Let Us Talk To Plants?

0:50:00 Cell Sentience vs Human Consciousness

0:53:10 Why Your Sense Of Self Is An Illusion

0:57:03 The Animal That Rebuilds Itself From Loose Cells

1:01:46 Your Membrane Traces Back To The First Cell

1:05:52 Heart Transplants And Personality Changes

1:10:31 Cancer Cells Have Lost The Map

1:15:15 "The Gene Outside The Cell Is Nothing"

1:16:47 Will Michael Levin Win A Nobel?

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