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- Plants have their own interconnected networks that allow them to communicate with each other, sometimes over considerable distances!
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CMN, really ?!
They couldn't call it the
Wood Wide Web ?
I actually thought "wood wide web" was the technical term. The oldest usage of Wood Wide Web I could find in a couple minutes of googling was an article in Nature from 1997, "Net transfer of carbon between ectomycorrhizal tree species in the field"
Now its only a matter of time till someone invents a CMN to Ethernet adapter to access it.... Shortly after it will be called the Wood Wide Web
Alec Holland knew about the wood wide web in the 1970s. If you don't know who he is Google him and Parliament of Trees.
Massimo O'Kissed Earthernet
World Wide Roots
The best argument for preserving old growth forests I've ever heard. Well done!
Dwayne Frechette +
Tell that to California
I like cutting forests down for lumber
The dying tree putting out it’s stored resources into the soil for any and all other plants to use... that is the most beautiful trait shared her. I hereby dub this “THE GIVING TREE EFFECT.”
The book....The Giving Tree.
❤ 🌳
That is appropriately named
Screw whatever the scientists were gonna call it. The Giving Tree Effect it is.
Shel Silverstein wrote that wonderful book! He was such a creative compassionate human being. He wrote songs and poetry and some not for young people albums. He was definitely an artist!
Huh, Avatar wasn't too far off.
Neither was Poison Ivy.
Eywa in World
they actually based the avatar thing on the paper studying this stuff.
Avatar was also 3-4 thousand years late to this stuff.
Which Avatar? The last airbender or the blue aliens?
Since this "internet" is underground does that make it the Deep Web?
And if an animal eats this fungus/plant network, does that make the animal a browser?
FYI if you don't get the "browser" pun. Herbivores like deer are "browsers" while cows and sheep are "grazers."
This one is less a pun and more high philosophy class.
Master Therion You did it man. Let's give this particular individual a thou sand likes.
Yes but the security sucks, everyone can be granted with root access.
Wow.
Nature just doesn't cease to amaze with its wonders.
So true. I just replied to a year old comment...
@@gaffatsy9193 same
@@darionbuck8864 I'll break the viscious cycle of replying to year old comments.
@@gaffatsy91932 years...
@@LordCapsis and now I replied to a new one. Cycle broke
We have no clue about practically everything. Plants are truly beautiful.
2018: I bet there will be flying cars in the future
2069: I can now talk to plants
I can "talk" to them now. 😉 ❤ 🌳
Wow, plants literally take better care of their poor than we do.
😥 true
@Alts'Alts
No, they used to be classified as plants.
Long time ago, everything was plant, animal, or mineral.
Now we have, I believe 6 categories in total, and fungi are in their own group now.
And yet the biologists will say that plants and etc are not aware...
But they can create a more benevolent society than most humans.
“It's talking, Merry. The tree is talking.”
"Don't encourage it!"
I think our pre-civilization ancestors, living in the forests and plains, probably understood there was a connection between plants and trees in a local area. Tree worship may be partly a result of close observation of natural processes.
Heck at one point, trees were our home. 😉 ❤
Btw most AwEsOmE comment! 👍 👏 bravo!
Yep and why all pur ancestors worshipped the earth and nature.
No
Hypothesis 1: Plants share nutrients for the common good of the ecosystem. Unlikely considering they compete fiercly for other resources such as light.
Hypothesis 2: The fungi distribute nutrients evenly among the plants connected to it so as to get as large of a leaf mass as possible, to get more food for itself. This seems way more likely to me, but have anyone tested this?
That's a pretty cool Hypothesis, Actually that might really be the case. Both of those.
Ive been saying this to my friends for about 8 years and half the time they think I'm crazy. Now science is backing me up. Much of nature becoms more understanding to me with each magic mushroom trip I do.
Agreed. Biologists act like sociopaths.
"Plants and etc and the subconscious can imitate conscious thought but it's not because stimuli..."
"Humans are conscious because they also react to stimuli." (Double standard)
Or "They don't have brains."
Uses universal neuron-like cells to communicate rather than a centralized brain.
Also cops: drugs are bad. Brain soup.
Drugs: literally causes more brain activity, neural plasticity, improved mental health, and greater awareness.
Plants are smarter than TH-cam comment section for sure.
Nick Rotellini Aside from the Hanks, yeah
Nick Rotellini ur last name makes me hungry
go sit in the woods by yourself then.
Juan D. M. Dunno little fella. You write with no grammar
I like pancakes
I don't need help communicating, my Muscles do it all for me.
+AdamBC
*Beaver
Letting your muscles do the talking? :)
Your muscles command you to eat meat and bang chicks.
I communicate with my CMN... my see-min... My... nevermind.
Is this channel supported by the NRA? I feel like I just walked into a gun show!
The Happening seems more realistic all of a sudden. Get Mark Wahlberg on the phone!
Seriously though, this is so cool! I KNEW IT!! I knew plants and forests were more intelligent and alive than we gave them credit for, and I am so excited we’re finally starting to understand with scientific proof and not feelings. Transferring nutrients is fascinating! You would think a plant would be interested in storing it all for itself.
It’s so hard to fathom how plant intelligence works. How does a mother tree... know? Do the individual cells have a consciousness that somehow create a hive-mind for the overall tree? I mean, if it’s exclusively chemical, what’s the central processing unit of a tree? I don’t really understand how tomato plants can respond throughout the whole plant. What exactly is receiving the chemical signal and going, “Send it all to the roots! Batten down the hatches!”? I thought I had a decent understanding of plant biology from school, but I clearly need to hit the books!
The Happening was the first movie I thought of too, arrogant humans thinking we were the superior lifeform....tsk tsk.
It's amazing how the more science learns, the more spiritual it seems.
i KNEW it!! i used to take a lot of hallucinogens and i'd often end up laying in grass, looking up at trees, and "seeing" them communicate with each other and the world around them. it's a pretty common trip among a lot of hallucinogen users i knew.
Yes, those often increase awareness of things otherwise easily ignored. Everything is interconnected to the degree that there is no meaningful separation between things (other than time and space), as many religions have known for millennia. We're in all the things around us, come from it, return to it. Whether you call that a oneness or God (as do pantheists) or a "monad," it's an incredible but also incredibly obvious fact. Especially when you squeegee that ol' third eye, heh.
I feel like some ethnicities knew that plants need each other like this
Man On The Moon yes, some cultures. Specially shamanic cultures
In symbiosis ❤
Proof that plants are better then humans at caring and sharing.
The Red Celt I did... You should watch the whole video before replying. Especially the part after that! Lol get real kiddo
Sylas the Great Was that reply supposed to have any value, or...?
They do play favrioutes, caring for their kin as was mentioned in the video. Humans do this as well
Sylas the Great +
It just isn’t a sci-show video without Muscle Hank and Justin Y commenting.
The Science Biome. Same.. & she bothers me a lot. Dont mean to be a hater but i would love to give her a make over! She need some love.
I actually wanted to watch this one too, but I just can't stand her. I've tried! I genuinely have. I never tend to have these reactions to hosts either, but I guess this is an exception. :/
i literally only like hank and that dude with the gauges.
The Science Biome ikr
She is not a model.
Amazing nature! And shocking how late this was discovered!
I love how some plants troll each other
If farmers started somehow planting myceala , maybe we could figure out ways for natural pesticides. Let the plants defend themsevles
Kynk This idea is already implemented. Pesticides are only really necessary in a monoculture farm, but when farms are structured in a more natural way that integrate multiple seasonal crops at once in natural environments they actually do protect themselves, or rather the system protects them
sara foades oh nice! Good to know! :-)
I just posted a video on my channel that briefly talks about monoculture if you’re interested! I’ll be posting a video specifically on monoculture and industrial agriculture soon, explaining all the science
@@crashboxshop pesticides are so bad for the earth, have you read silent spring?
Many of the wild versions of plants ARE more tolerant to pests and disease.
Amazing how the universe works. I was looking at my plants a night or two ago and realized that the sides of the plant that was not receiving the light was just as developed as the side that was. Then I see a video that answers it. Amazing how that seems to happen all the time.
Most mycorrhizae are from fruiting fungi, such as the honey mushroom, which is the largest of any organism. We have them in Ohio, the same ones as in Oregon. Imagine an organism that you can’t see or detect, but it’s larger than you can know. That’s crazy to me. I love it.
Actually the Honey Mushroom is a bad example as it is a parasite that kills trees before growing either outwards or inwards to kill either a new area of victims or returning to a old crimescene after it has started to recover. A better example is the rings of mushrooms that grow around specific species of trees or things like truffles that grow around oaks.
Dragrath1 That’s fair. Though we see parasites as bad, they actually are just more adept at gaining nutrients than others are. They use parasitism to their advantage. Life eats life. The universe creates to destroy.
@@erinbenton9361 it also destroys to create ❤ I think the important thing is that humanity is reaquainting itself with nature, that we are a part of and have an effect and r affected by all things interconnected!!
Ugh. Why do people always immediately assume it's the plants that are doing everything? Fungi are highly complex living organisms too, they are not just wires installed by plants so that they can use them as they please. Everything mentioned in this video could just as easily be interpreted in a fungi-centric way. I have yet to see any real reason to think that plants are the only or even the main drivers of these relationships.
Agreed.
Fungi do some pretty strange things and can even control people. Take the fungi that causes valley fever. We become unwitting vessels for their redistribution and it actually manipulates human behavior to spread itself around!
Because why would the fungi do the plants any favors? Also, how would it even communicate that ?
Snatched. The fungus needs the plants more than the plants need the fungus
VariantAEC what manipulation of human behaviour are you talking about? I just read the wikipedia page on coccidiodomycosis or valley fever, and nowhere is it stated that human behaviour is altered in any way for the benefit of the fungus, just a bunch of common infection symptoms.
David Enrique +
Bruh... I need to see an epic 4 hour documentary about this
Go watch videos on organic no till permaculture gardens and food forests. 👍 😉 tons of sources of info about the web of living soil. ❤
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Neat so now we have avatar trees
Now WE know about it. It's most likely been like that for quite some time.
Maybe they already knew about it😎
Ikr?!?! Dang... that’s gonna be cool...
It just works
You again!
Hate you...
What are you doing in my channel scishow?
🤔
Why don't you read the replies to any of your comments?
But can it run Doom?
Yes.
Could probably run Crysis 3 in 120 frames.
But can it run Roblox? Lol
Crysis or GTFO
verdatum it can run @ 40 fps.
See kids, even plants share things, sharing is caring :)
sometimes I think people underestimate how cool trees really are
Imagine if we could develop a gateway from our internet to the forest's network.
Sounds like something that could be featured in a sci-fi series
I would say photosynthesis is about as magical as magnets.
Do u watch uncle kenny angry photographer??
This is the key to our intelligence. None of the fungi in the network are exceptionally intelligent (like our neurons); but through the complex connections between them create the net effect of intelligence.
Y’all really just uploaded this. I had an exam today for one of my classes at nc state and we had to write about this.
I'm just so thrilled that my plant friends don't have to live on this earth without internet 😇
Where Im from, my ancestors considered old trees and old forests sacred and left them untouched. Now I know why.
Goes to show you how much advance nature is in relation to human's technological advancements.
I do love technology in general, though I find nature more fascinating. If only we had the code to interact with nature... Kind of reminds me of Jame Cameron's Avatar.
Not only understanding plants but other animals and learn from them as well.
What does this have to do with technology? It's an organism that grows, that's like calling the nervous system connecting your brain and penis a technological marvel
@@DavidVoxDem Just pointing out that we human copy nature when it comes to designs in structures. like spider's web to make vest, gecko's foot design to make super sticky adhesives etc Basically Bio-mimicry. Using already existing design from nature to make tools us human use in our everyday life.
One of my favorite is mimic the mosquito's needle to make painless injection or draw blood without the patient feeling it.
Hence why scientist and engineers are constantly studying nature to see how they can incorporate the design to make it viable.
This subject has become real interesting in my older age The fact that plants can communicate through the wood wide web is key info due to the fact that there possibly a lot more we do not know and this is just the tip of the iceberg. I am very fascinated by this due to the fact that humans have started using this cool system of information yet it was already here long before us. And how much do we think we know about this planet? Fungus is tasty I love all the varieties we can eat and the psilocybin ones are starting to peek a lot of interest in the medical field for micro dosing benefits for mental health sufferers. Nature is so bloody cool if people get interested enough in all of this realize just how cool this planet is maybe we would not wreck it so much! Plus Mckenna said mushrooms were meant for us to plug into the planet be part of this network and thats why we are all broken and need to fix this issue before it is too late! Talk about a wild theory! But go do 5 grams of dried psilocybin mushrooms and sit in a wooded grove or a beautiful forest it might change your way of thinking or be such a profound experience and very humbling to say the least! Just So Cool!!!
It’s called hallucinations nothing more lol 😂
It’s all in your brain
I like scishow. They report on old and new things and do very well to be unbiased (please send examples of otherwise) and talk/teach interesting things. If I had money, I would definitely sponsor them on Patreon
Another phenomenal reason why HUMANS are Soooo unneeded on this beautiful Earth
Very well explained. Highly enjoyed it. Thanks from Australia!
Awww...Plants are able to communicate I love this I love this show thank you for all the great information.
I don’t think people fully appreciate how mind boggling this is. This world was created by intelligence design. That intelligence is ingrained inside animals, plants, and human being.
Once again nature is way ahead of us when we one day "invent" something to change our lives.
I know you've heard it a million times before, but please, the voice inflections are literally the only thing getting in the way of making this a truly lovable presentation.
that story of mother tree sound like Avatar magic, and still it's real Oo, amazing !
"I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing to listen. These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays: taken together, the neural net connectivity must be staggering. Can a planet be said to have achieved sentience?"
Lady Deirdre Skye, Arguments in Council
(From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri game, released February 12th, 1999)
So Avatar is true!!!
This blows my mind!
Biodiversity is the greatest technology achievement ever. No amount of money in the world can buy or imitate the endless forms of problem-solving techniques employed by evolution
Makes me wonder if an alien plant species with a similar fungal internet system could develop intelligence on par with that of humans. I know intelligence requires LOTS of nutrients, but if the soil is really fertile, it might be possible.
It's a big universe so I don't doubt it
Yes, finally something I know as an Industrial Mycrobioligist :)
Did you mean Microbiologist or Mycobiologist?
Ironically, as farther away from typical animals we become, the closer we are to the other animals' technology. Someday, we'll have a human version of everything. Human cocoons (working cryopods that let us slip through time), human viruses/nanobots (for all the amazing and scary things they can do to our cells), human EVERYTHING!
Man, plants socialize more than I do...
This is fascinating
So could we potentially hack into this network and begin rudimentary communication with the local flora? It probably would be of some use to be able to tell trees in an area that they are about to be deforested, and allow them to send packages of nutrients and seedlings into the dirt so that the forest regrows quicker. I could also see this used in farming, particularly since I'd imagine farm crops would have already been developing unique ways to tell each other that the harvest will be soon and it's time to pump up their seedpods or whatever.
You could also probably use it to provide forward warning to certain woods about forest fires, which could also help in conservation efforts. Fire would be, I imagine, one of the things plants wouldn't be able to get off word about, since it moves so fast.
Culturing a CMN in urban areas might also help urban trees, particularly if we can help breed them to keep pests like birds and such away, although it might be easier and cheaper just to find a way to make city pigeons a resource rather than a pest...
This was very good information, thank you sci show.
Now that makes sense since you see plants thriving in soil that otherwise would be bad when near by other plants have better soil.
For a second there I thought that there would be a segway for VPN sponsorship.
😀😁😄 this makes me so happy I love plants and fungi🌱🍄
Potato Durp agreed🍠
Mycorrhizae can also police their network. There are mycelia that form nooses from specific cells, and these nooses have their mechanisms to trap and squeeze nematodes.
I'm a rebellious creative creature and I'm turning my lawn into a no till, organic, permaculture, food garden. That's how I learned about living soil...fungi composting etc. And what u say is so true. Thank u!!
*Psssst* *psssst* "Hey! Hey! You got any Nitro' or even some Phos' bro..."
What?! No bio' char?
That 'post is the sh*t!
😉
So I take it that means the Druids back in the day were actually correct with having sacred trees?
Do an episode on the stoned ape theory!
We''ve only been telling you people this for at least 30,000 years. Thank you, science, for at least starting to catch up.
So i can plug my phone into the ground and have a connection? Awsome :D
People say I’m a *Fungi*
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Dank Hank yes you are!
Dank Hank dank Hank
Let me be the party pooper and point out that fungi is plural.
Yo this is absolutely nuts
The mind-boggling complexity of the web of life.
I just listened to a show on NPR about this a month ago. I was telling my mom about it this morning.
some mycelium talked chemically to me today and it said that the world is beautiful
I came here expecting loads of people to say "it's not communication, it's passive and chemically "programmed" into them" and such which I kind of feel too, but woah internet, all the comments are pretty hilarious. Yay humans!
Very interesting!
Thank you for that information
Shintoism was right
This remindes me of the movie avatar when he connected his hair to the trees to save his life.
YOU´RE BEAUTIFUL OLIVIA!
This is so interesting!! Also, great host!
Wait, are you telling me plants have a society? Why am I eating plants! They’re smarter than the chickens!
Swamp Thing appreciates your understanding of The Green.
incredible
It’s interesting that there are species of fungi that help us connect and communicate as well as these kinds that do the same for plants.
So Avatar's Tree was spot on 👍
When trees from across the forest are able to send nutrients via the mycelium network, how are we sure that it’s the tree sensing that the other tree needs water?
Could the network of the mycelia have a collective consciousness which is sensing the plants needs and distributing resources accordingly?
Mind-blowing P-Net
Star Trek Discovery spore drive?
johnny chang What a horrible premise that was. A Beast that can travel through space-time instantly using a space bound mycelial network. Wtf?? They destroyed Star Trek 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
you clearly don't understand higher-dimensions!
Gregory Samuel Teo What does higher dimensions have to do with a space fairing insta-travelling Beast and space fungi? lol, get real man
I'll agree with you that that "higher" dimension ish is bologna. But i thought the mycelial network from the recent star trek was kind of clever. From my perspective, the network represents the dark matter "web" that seems to keep the universe and its galaxies together. Its multi-dimensional aspect just gives the show an out or the potential to branch off. i.e. a plot device.
But i don't get why you couldn't believe that another organism could have a symbiotic relationship with a ridiculous space fairing organism when it exists in the story to begin with. That's nature.
Carl Koree Ochah ..Space Beasts and space fungi are just ridiculous concepts to me. And yes, its based on the previously postulated and recently detected Dark Matter filament bridges that link galaxies. But calling that fungi, and growing them as such in a "green house", is just ridiculous. They could've explained the dark matter bridges in a much more science oriented and sophisticated manner.
So, Avatar was right?
the blue people one AND the good one, btw.
Great episode on a fascinating topic. But... but... it's called the Wood Wide Web!
Does "hacking" at the trees also produce an alert signal to other trees? If so, every lumberjack in history must be a zero-day bug to trees.
In the early 90s I wrote a poem about lumberjacks that tackled and tore down screaming trees.
maybe there are even connection via the seafloor between different continents!
It's really cool to know about this stuff.
Even plants understand that you have to help each other out. Yet here we are, arguing over whether or not its a good idea to have Universal Healthcare and a living wage. lol
So that means plants invented the Internet waaaay before humans did.
it's like there's an Intelligent Creator behind it all
Tolkien was right all the way :D except for the walking :p
I learnt this from the new Magic School Bus series
Now I know what inspired Star Trek Discovery :)
This remind me of the old Astro Boy episodes, when he connected to the forest and saved it xD
This is LIT.
I LOVE YOU OLIVIA GORDON!