Re: Plants as network medium?

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From: Allin Cottrell
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:00

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Michael Fair wrote:

> I just made an assumption that the Earth already has a built in global
> communication system, and all there is to do is find it and start using it.

Why would you make such an assumption?  What Darwinian "function" would
such a global communication system serve?  Nature is wonderful alright,
but it got the way it is by a very specific process, not by magic.  
No low-probability systems have been devised by Nature that did not
serve the reproduction "requirements" of genes.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC

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From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu>
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