(urth) The green man is a fake

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/16/2011 4:35 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> (Interestingly, one corollary of your idea is that a moving, talking
> plant is an evolutionary impossibility.)

perhaps not; an evergreen could become animated a few weeks a year, or a 
few months if it could deploy broad leaves for sun and furl them for 
activity, perhaps like a peacock's tail. Developing language would take 
proportionately longer.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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