Japanese plant writes blog - Intelligent plants

Japanese plant writes blog

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A potted plant at a cafe near Tokyo, Japan is entertaining customers by writing a regular blog about its feelings.

It is the work of a university engineer who has been studying how to communicate with plants.

He devised a sensor which he attached to the plant named "Midori-san" that measures bio-electric signals. These are converted into data by a computer next the plant and then translated into Japanese in the form of a blog.

The plant's latest entry reads: "It was cloudy today. It was a col

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[edit on 28-10-2008 by Sheridan]

We're searching for intelligent life forms, while they're all around us. The best is, I making this conclusion from the quote of the blog, it seems they're able to make difference between past and present, like we, humans. I already heard that they've different feelings, their emotions are following music, they also can like different type of musics, such as Mozart what is usually the favorite of the plants, but I never dared to imagine that with technology, they can express themselves and their experiences.

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[edit on 28-10-2008 by Sheridan]

god, plants are the worst conversationalists. if you ever meet one at a party, get away. he'll chew your ear off.

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Funny, but actually this plan is able to express itself quite better then most of the human, whose are writing blogs. And I don't believe that a plant can lie, like we, humans are doing daily in our blogs.

[edit on 28-10-2008 by Sheridan]

And here is the original site, where everyone may monitor the plant.

plant.bowls-cafe.jp...

Unfortunately it's on Japanese, so if here is someone from Japan or knows on Japanese, please translate the last blog entries from the site. I'm curious what the plant said.

Hmmm...I am trying to imagine the day when a plant will testify as a witness. Might be useful in divorce procedings ~suspicous of my own plants now~ LOL

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