stardustsailor
Well-Known Member
Prologue:
Humans have cognition.
Which sometimes may prove rather ,
misleading and counteracting itshelf...
Being able to choose to respond with virtually countless different responses,
even to a single external stimulus coming from 5 limited "world sensing" mechanisms ,
is rather relative way to interact with the "external world".,at general...The surroundings ...
-"Internal world" is where cognition ...hmmm." Takes place "....If we can say so...-
Plants,do have different way of handling different stimulus...But it is not a matter of choise...
A hidden will ,that surrounds life generally is the common first "directive" :
Survival of shelf( as unit ..or population,in some cases...) so to multiply shelf( as species) ,under any cost .
From that first "directive",
*****(which is written with big letters ,underneath title ,at the "Codex Vitae ;book of life- ...that only alchemists get to read....")****
other "directives" do " outcome ",also...:
i.e Survival of the fittest ...
Watch out ..
Not rules...Directives...
Rules apply for those organisms ,which are able to choose ,to break them ...
Directives can not be avoided or denied ,by organisms which live without having the group of abilities ,
humans refer to as "cognition"....
-At least that's what humans ,trust or "believe" so...
Best kept secrets are hidden in common view....
...
Is it ever possible for a plant that is "Shade Adapted" to produce more flowers ,than a "Sun Adapted Plant " ?
More simply put...
Can a plant with " less light ",produce more...i.e. flowers, than another one,
growing in more " favourable light conditions " ?
Well...The answer is already outhere...
In natural environment...
And it is yes ....
Definately ,yes !
But .....
(Here's the catch ...)
What exactly do we mean when we refer to "Shade Adapted" , "Sun Adapted Plant " , " less light " & " favourable light conditions " ?
.....
Plants,may mean otherwise than humans do ...
( " May ? "...)
...
Disecting first pair...
First things first ...
Us humans,probably, perceive "Favourable Conditions" in very much different way plants do..
For us ,determining those conditions ,is done by using the "referance " method.
Simply put ,between two different situations (enviromental sites) ,we "specify" as
"more favourable " the one ,of two ,that succeeds most ,fulfilling the "referance's " standards.
Regarding Plant Growth in general ,as human science has proved ,light is the main & solely energy source on this planet,used by living plants,for producing their own resources ,so to sustain their growth & reproduction needs,regarding energy& matter.
"Rationally " acting ,human cognition abilities ,specify as"Favourable Conditions " for plants ,
those that are rich with primary energy.Thus "more light ",for us humans ,may easily mean "
Favourable conditions for plant growth "...
But is this " belief" or "logical assumption" standing " true ", really ?
Plato was really a clever guy...
He knew only one thing....
That he didn't knew anything at all,really....
That's human cognition's ultimate truth...
Or a fact,if you like...
Cognition's only Directive...
"Have the ability to learn and find out.."
Soon (? ) to realise that you don't know sh!t ,almost, about anything...
Not even who or what exactly you are...
Or why all these around you exist ,along with you... "
Anyway...
Coming along ,to confirm this human hypothesis ,regarding "Favourable Conditions" ,is the
actual facts on sites of planet Earth,which are characterised by those conditions.
Vast populations of plants ,many different species ( species diversity ) ,large sized plants ,ect..
Numbers....
Human cognition and numbers...Long story,that one.....
But humans live among humans as humans...
Plants amongst other plants ,as plants....
Sounds kinda weird ?
For plants ,those "Favourable Conditions" sites , in fact ,often mean "Overpopulated Sites."
Or worse "Sites of Great Antagonism " ...
Simply put...
"War zone."
And every each one plant , is implicated,one way or another , into that "war"having it's own "enemy pool" ...
Often belonging to it's own kind (species )...
A war ,where even the neighbor is an enemy..
Specially the neighbor,as moving or translocating is impossible,for plants.
A war ,that tries to keep all species far from "overpopulating " and "overtaking" the site...
Nature (life ) is not keen on that kind of strategies..Empires do fall and in fact ,very easy....
If a plant was to completely dominate a site ,an insect specie could have had vanished all vegetation,at such case....
And then get exincted also,due to lack of food......
Diversity...Another "life directive"..Thus evolution...The fittest of variations will survive...
Life will continue...The show must go on.....
[video=youtube;9BdFUrCwhqc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BdFUrCwhqc[/video]
Many higher plants growing at sites with "favourable conditions" ,
do in fact have counteracting mechanisms ,
to control their own population from overpopulating and/or exausting natural resources.Conservation.Ecology.
Counteracting mechanisms ,induced by the same those " favourable conditions"...
Like the one of producing "few seeds" .....(Thus few flowers....)
'Cause there are all the "favourable conditions" in the world ,for most of them to survive,germinate and be new plants.....
If they were lots of them ,specie will have had been exincted , most probably,by overconsuming and /or byproducting("waste")....
Or if dominated,could have also been whiped out completely ,by another life form,due to lack of diversity...
Weak point(s) would-could , have been the same for all specie individuals...
And ,contrary to what it may ,appears to be like ,nothing is left to "luck",by Life....
Grape juice has "favourable conditions" for microorganisms....
But there's no natural control if closed to a container...
Microorganisms consume sugars, get overpopulated due to "favourable conditions",
sugars get exausted , byproducts/waste(alcohol) concentrations increase ...
At a point there's not enough food for everyone...
&...
Waste is too much,to bear...
Every single microorganism dies..
Extinct...
"Life" will never show up there,again..
Wine is ready,then...
Cheers...