Monica Gagliano - Imagining the New World: Science and the Mind of Plants

Monica Gagliano - Imagining the New World: Science and the Mind of Plants
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Synopsis: From ancient myths and legends to enchanting tales and modern blockbuster movies, humanity has recounted thousands of stories where an apparently aloof and motionless vegetal world promptly comes to life to voice opinions, foretell the future, whisper words of comfort, sing and at times, even scream. What if these stories were more than the fruit of our vivid imagination? By attuning its ears to vegetal ‘voices’, contemporary science has finally started lifting the veil of human plant-blindness to provide us with significant means of reimagining and rethinking plants as people. By reconceiving the connections between plants and humanity, and revitalising our relationship with the soul of Nature, this new imaginative science restores a more intimate way of perceiving the world, an expanded perspective where the solutions to our current eco-cultural predicament become available.
Bio: Monica is a research associate professor in evolutionary ecology and a former fellow of the Australian Research Council. She is now based at the University of Sydney as a Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute and a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences. In the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, she has established the brand new BI Lab-Biological Intelligence Lab as part of the Diverse Intelligences Initiative of the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Though she began her career by studying animal behaviour, she quickly turned her attention to plant behaviour and cognition.
Over the last decade, she has blazed the trail for a brand new field called plant bioacoustics, showing that plants do make sounds; and by demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, she has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. Her studies have led her to author numerous groundbreaking scientific articles and to co-edit The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World (Lexington Books, 2015), The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy and Literature (Minnesota University Press, 2017) and Memory and Learning in Plants (Springer, 2018). Her research transcends the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism and encourages us to rethink plants as people-beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices.
In her latest book, Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants (North Atlantic Books, 2018), which she calls a “phytobiography”, she describes her experiments that opened the space to begin to understand how to make contact with this other-than-human intelligence. More info: www.monicagagliano.com
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[@MataH1]

Very important talk, I'd say even more during the QA at the end. Taking responsibility for ourselves and what we impact on is surely the first step for singing our songs...

[@richardfinlayson1524]

mindblowing talk....when you change your mind you change everything, thanks a lot

[@futurecaredesign]

At 31:51 she goes into 'how do we change our mind?'. One thing I have learned from the Nature Connection movement is that we actually change our mind through two things: Mindfocus and Sensory Awareness. Mindfocus is obvious, if your mind is focused on something you start to see it in more detail, which allows your mind to open up and change. If your focus is scattered, or on the issue you are opposing, nothing ever really changes. Sensory Awareness simply means that we also need to be grounded in the body for change to occur. So smells, touch, hearing, etc, all need to be activated. First of all to feel safe. But secondly to reduce the emphasis of the 'egoic mind', as the egoic mind is really just a very elaborate mechanism to keep us safe. This reduced mind chatter then allows for a timeless flow-state to open up and we connect much more deeply with what we were focusing on.

[@si12364]

Wonderful speech!! I really appreciate her for her onesty, her clarity, and full and deep respect to indigenous culture and their medicine. She has a very rare integrity, so hard to find especially in these time. What is remarkeble in her is her energy, ...she has nothing to sell, just she offer her love for Nature and Life!!!

[@acacianilotica4497]

Wow. So inspiring, and now I am going to speak to my beautiful plants and give them thanks 🙏🏻 😄

[@billturner4754]

Thankx for your wonderful steps in bringing an awakening to our humanity 💚👍💖

[@hommhommhomm]

Every time she says "personal experience" it becomes more and more of a cosmic joke. I love seeing how she has hard time not cracking up in laughter towards the end. The wisdom and seeing shine through

[@MattAngiono]

Wow this was fantastic, but I alway knew it would be when I clicked on it. We are in the right place at the right time if we can just expand our hearts and minds enough to see it. Certainly our mother is calling upon our awakening! I also like her reference to death phobia, as I've recently been following the work of Steven jenkinson.... really good stuff to be learning in times like these!

[@bob733333]

Father not mother.

[@MattAngiono]

@@bob733333 you're half right... Father sky is calling as well.

[@FastNCurious88]

bob733333 tf is wrong with you

[@FastNCurious88]

bob733333 guess what? Like most men the great Father couldn’t handle it and has since abandoned all his Children. While our Mother has always remained. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@goldbluetears]

wow this is big! I love this woman!

[@matthewmchugh5415]

Thank you so much 🙏🏼

[@maureenruggeri5026]

This was excellent!

[@corruptcatalyst4141]

Pavlov's Pea's is my new band name.

[@guynouri]

Fantastic Just do it now

[@guynouri]

Brave to talk about authority

[@ayla4678]

wow! 🤯🤯🤯

[@andreasduenow3329]

❤

[@Divinescribe3]

Life “IS” regardless the form. Mother Earth is that which gives rise to the form Life uses to experience a physical reality. Remember the opposite of death is not Life it’s birth. Birth and death of the form Life is eternal. You are eternal. Birth and death is nothing more than transformation of the form.

[@MicahGilmorethekoopaking]

That's the "I am" we become when we live in the moment and not in the past (guilt) or future (anxiety).

[@cfurku]

both questions about "magic healing" :) none about plants. great speech. great voice that plants have chosen to speak with

[@zaahafizah4808]

👍🌱

[@elcinylmaz2200]

youtube reccommended this video to me as I was searching for a documentary or sth. about plants. I watched it until 14.51 and I am completely lost what was the topic, where did I come from, what's the point??????

[@entheotv]

Does it help to know this is an ethnobotany channel? Do you like the McKenna brothers?

[@telumears]

Drew Barrymore pulling a fast one! Nothing is what you think it is!

[@mokamo23]

She is Terence McKenna's apparent successor

[@futurecaredesign]

Oh wow, that is such an accurate statement! I also like that she has real scientific credentials, whereas Terence was an epic bard and a storyteller but couldn't really hold himself up in the field of science.

[@SlapPa9]

@@futurecaredesign science couldn't handle his energy.

[@futurecaredesign]

@@SlapPa9 He was pushing the envelope of creativity so far that his words became meaningless to people in the regular dimension :)

[@lesliekingsley4993]

"Does the Sun go around the Earth?" - Vedic Hindus in ancient knew that it did not (as recorded in Chandogya Upanishad of the Sama Veda).

[@markwesson5840]

Pogo stick action...both sun & moon are calibrators..earth sits in the middle...so the sun & moon rotates around mother💜✔✨

[@markwesson5840]

Earth is a space ship 🚢

[@williamhayes8864]

Academia consist of those who are deepest in Plato’s cave

[@susanmazura3924]

You’re seeing His intelligence His design Which man will fight because he cannot explain it and if it does not come from his mind and understanding he will reject it What we don’t understand is that the Creator God put this All into place and it’s miraculous

[@susanmazura3924]

His ways are higher than ours and scientific “knowledge “ is like a child’s mind and those who see past the narrative are persecuted.. they are veiled

[@susanmazura3924]

So keep looking sister

[@susanmazura3924]

This is the Creator’s World It’s God’s world and it’s rich

[@susanmazura3924]

It’s the mind of God that we are seeing in the world we observe

[@guynouri]

Again

[@susanmazura3924]

It’s because God has put forth everything in intelligence.. look at the ants proverbs 6:6-22

[@williamhayes8864]

Academia be like you can’t make money from simplifying things lol ….. then no one would come to school

[@count-robo]

well, iam half way through. this is an empty talk... will close.

[@bellezavudd]

Oops, better get back to some video games.