Ebook: Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants

An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life. The projection of one´s subjectivity onto anything defines what, often, is unamicably labeled "pseudoscience". The problem here is that Gagliano´s contributions do both, science and pseudoscience. She did science in studying physiological reactivity in plants, an old biological topic that doesn´t require any atribution of subjectivity or existentiality. She does pseudoscience in ungroundedly sustaining this added attribution. Monica Gagliano (born 1976) goes on with her self-identification with plants up to the point of labeling her biography as a "phytobiography". Such an extreme, ungrounded view bestowed on her fame, and the adhesion of unacademic lay people. Of late such a condition turned her mediatic, inflated her (non-vegetal) ego, and nowadays it´s difficult that she could revert her pseudoscientific attribution, of existentiality to plants. This unbecoming situation has been bolstered by its framing in the Anglo-American neuroscience, which on political reasons has pretended to be universal, whence it broadcasted worldwide its blindness toward some hard-science topics -which are essential for the book´s matter- instead flagged by other academic traditions. In this "phytobiography", a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant–research scientist, Monica Gagliano "reveals" the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. With the excuse of transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and -why not?- also volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The main issue, notoriously,is a lack of command on philosophiocal anthropology, namely on the concept of what a person is: if robots and machines are supposed to enjoy subjectivity and will, even down to receiving citizenship in Saudi Arabia, and if psyche is thought as some kind of fungible substance, How avoiding to project animism onto rocks, planets, and of course plants? The book draws on up-close-and-"personal" encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world, and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, "remember" (i.e., modify themselves structurally, like computer "memories"; i.e., not refer mentally to past episodes, an ungrounded mental reference which Gagliano ungroundedly proclaims), and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit distinctive sound vibrations (Gagliano of course calls them "their own voices") and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals and man-made machines (such as Googgle engines), Gagliano pretend to jump up in thin air, so as to re-ignite the pseudoscientific discourse on plant subjectivity and its supposedly ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made her discoveries and added on them her projective fantasies, and how the plants helped her inmoderate hermeneusis along the way.

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An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life. The projection of one´s subjectivity onto anything defines what, often, is unamicably labeled "pseudoscience". The problem here is that Gagliano´s contributions do both, science and pseudoscience. She did science in studying physiological reactivity in plants, an old biological topic that doesn´t require any atribution of subjectivity or existentiality. She does pseudoscience in ungroundedly sustaining this added attribution. Monica Gagliano (born 1976) goes on with her self-identification with plants up to the point of labeling her biography as a "phytobiography". Such an extreme, ungrounded view bestowed on her fame, and the adhesion of unacademic lay people. Of late such a condition turned her mediatic, inflated her (non-vegetal) ego, and nowadays it´s difficult that she could revert her pseudoscientific attribution, of existentiality to plants. This unbecoming situation has been bolstered by its framing in the Anglo-American neuroscience, which on political reasons has pretended to be universal, whence it broadcasted worldwide its blindness toward some hard-science topics -which are essential for the book´s matter- instead flagged by other academic traditions. In this "phytobiography", a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant–research scientist, Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. With the excuse of transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and -why not?- also volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-"personal" encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world, and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, "remember" (i.e., modify themselves structurally, like computer "memories"; i.e., not refer mentally to past episodes, an ungrounded mental reference which Gagliano ungroundedly proclaims), and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit distinctive sound vibrations (Gagliano of course calls them "their own voices") and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals and man-made machines (such as Googgle engines), Gagliano pretend to jump up in thin air, so as to re-ignite the pseudoscientific discourse on plant subjectivity and its supposedly ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made her discoveries and added on them her projective fantasies, and how the plants helped her inmoderate hermeneusis along the way.

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An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life. The projection of one´s subjectivity onto anything defines what, often, is unamicably labeled "pseudoscience". The problem here is that Gagliano´s contributions do both, science and pseudoscience. She did science in studying physiological reactivity in plants, an old biological topic that doesn´t require any atribution of subjectivity or existentiality. She does pseudoscience in ungroundedly sustaining this added attribution. Gagliano goes on with her self-identification with plants up to the point of labeling her biography as a "phytobiography". Such an extreme, ungrounded view bestowed on her fame, and the adhesion of unacademic lay people. Of late such a condition turned her mediatic, inflated her (non-vegetal) ego, and nowadays it´s difficult that she could revert her pseudoscientific attribution, of existentiality to plants. This unbecoming situation has been bolstered by its framing in the Anglo-American neuroscience, which on political reasons has pretended to be universal, and so broadcasted worldwide its blindness toward some hard-science topics instead flagged by other academic traditions. In this "phytobiography", a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant–research scientist, Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. With the excuse of transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-"personal" encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world, and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, "remember" (i.e., modify themselves structurally, like computer "memories"; i.e., not refer mentally to past episodes, an ungrounded mental reference which Gagliano ungroundedly proclaims), and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit distinctive sound vibrations (Gagliano of course calls them "their own voices") and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals and man-made machines (such as Googgle engines), Gagliano pretend to jump up in thin air, so as to re-ignite the pseudoscientific discourse on plant subjectivity and its supposedly ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made her discoveries and added on them her projective fantasies, and how the plants helped her inmoderate hermeneusis along the way.

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An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life. The projection of one´s subjectivity onto anything defines what, often, is unamicably labeled "pseudoscience". The problem here is that Gagliano´s contributions do both, science and pseudoscience. She did science in studying physiological reactivity in plants, an old biological topic that doesn´t require any atribution of subjectivity or existenciality. She does pseudoscience in ungroundedly sustaining this added attribution. Gagliano goes on with her self-identification with plants up to the point of labeling her biography as a "phytobiography". Such an extreme, ungrounded view bestowed on her fame, and the adhesion of unacademic lay people. Of late such a condition turned her mediatic, inflated her (non-vegetal) ego, and nowadays it´s difficult that she could revert her pseudoscientific attribution of existentiality to plants. This unbecoming situation has been bolstered by its framing in Anglo-American neuroscience, which on political reasons has pretended universal, and so broadcasted worldwide, its blindness toward some hard-science topics instead flagged by other academic traditions. In this "phytobiography", a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant–research scientist, Monica Gagliano, reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, "remember" (i.e., modify themselves structurally, like computer "memories"; i.e., not refer mentally to past episodes, an ungounded reference which is inexactly proclaimed by Gagliano), and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own sound vibrations (Gagliano of course calls them 'voices') and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals and man-made machines, Gagliano has re-ignited the pseudoscientific discourse on plant subjectivity and its supposedly ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made her discoveries and added on them her projective fantasies, and how the plants helped her inmoderate hermeneusis along the way.

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An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life. The projection of one´s subjectivity onto anything defines what, often, is unamicably labeled "pseudoscience". The problem here is that Gagliano´s contributions do both, science and pseudoscience. She did science in studying physiological reactivity in plants, an old biological topic that doesn´t require any atribution of subjectivity or existenciality. She does pseudoscience in ungroundedly sustaining this added attribution. Gagliano goes on with her self-identification with plants up to the point of labeling her biography as a "phytobiography". Such an extreme, ungrounded view bestowed on her fame, and the adhesion of unacademic lay people. Of late such a condition turned her mediatic, inflated her (non-vegetal) ego, and nowadays it´s difficult that she could revert her pseudoscientific attribution of existentiality to plants. This unbecoming situation has been bolstered by its framing in Anglo-American neuroscience, which on political reasons has pretended universal, and so broadcasted worldwide, its blindness toward some hard-science topics instead flagged by other academic traditions. In this "phytobiography", a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant–research scientist, Monica Gagliano, reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own 'voices' and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made those discoveries and how the plants helped her along the way.

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An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life. The projection of one´s subjectivity onto anything defines what is unamicably labeled "pseudoscience". The problem here is that Gagliano´s contributions do bot, science and pseudoscience. She did science in studying physiological reactivity in plants, an old biological topic that doesn´t require any atribution of subjectivity or existenciality. She does pseudoscience in ungroundedly sustaining this attribution. Gagliano goes on with her selfidentification with plants up to the point of labeling her biography as a "phytobiography". Such extreme and ungrounded view gave her fame and the adhesion of unacademic lay people. Such a condition of late turned her mediatic, and it´s difficult that now she could revert her pseudoscientific attribution of existentiality to plants. The extraordinary feature of Anglo-American neuroscience, which on political reasons has broadcasted worldwide its blindness toward hard-science topics instead flagged by other academic traditions, e.g. the Iberoamerican neurobiology. In this "phytobiography", a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant–research scientist, Monica Gagliano, reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own 'voices' and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made those discoveries and how the plants helped her along the way.

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An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life. In this "phytobiography"–a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant–research scientist, Monica Gagliano, reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own 'voices' and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made those discoveries and how the plants helped her along the way.