The roots of plant intelligence

Bad news for vegetarians: Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways. Can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian scientist; Stefano Mancuso, find brain-like cells in the root of plants.
The signals that is produced by a few hundred cells in a special region of the root are as same as neuron's signals of our brain, They are used for exchanging information. This less than one millimeter region has the highest consumption of oxygen in the plant.
By watching this nice Ted lecture you can be aware of the whole story and comparison of a plant roots with Internet, and their similarties as well.


Veges! If you concern not eating things with brain and you believe him, Don't worry! you won't die of hunger. Today I went to Zaeem flower shop, There were some plants without roots, hope they don't have brains in their leaves so you can eat them and staying alive and keep being a good man.

Interent is a brain? Is it intelligent?

About 10 years ago I heard an idea from professor Caro Lucas. I think it's good to tell you about this unique idea:

When we have a lot of connections in a system, This system will be intelligent, such thing is happened in our brain."We don't know why, but the result of these connections is intelligence."Lucas said.(It's a long time and maybe I forget some part of this idea)

I was thinking if this idea be true, something strange is happenning:
Nowadays we have systems with a lot of connections like internet: netwoks of networks; so Internet is intelligent? If yes how can this newborn baby show it's intelligence to us. how much it's IQ is? Can it help us? (Ouch! My mind said.)

I search the web to know more about these ideas: I found this site, Jeff Stibel has written an article which is started with these sentences :
The Internet is a brain. There, I said it. It has taken me far too long to publicly utter those words. And not because I don't believe them, but for fear that people will think I am crazy.

I like to work on this topic for my bachelor theses, differece and similarity between brain and internet but when I asked about this, Many stare at me in a strange way and implied: What do you say? Are you crazy!

I will be thankful if you tell me about your ideas

some useful links about this idea:
BBC News : Brain works more like internet than 'top down' company
Wikipedia: about Wiered for thought book

The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone TED

Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone | Video on TED.com

Nao, a good boy who learns by experiment

Nao is a robot who learns by experiment. In his website, there are four videos of his curiousness. In the first video, after a nice nap he wakes up to find himself in a new place. He takes a walk and he himself explains what he is doing in his robot like voice, then he learns many things like: it is impossible to put a cube on a ball or some boxes are movable and some are not.

He predicts what will happen and if his prediction is wrong he tries to find out why.

a weblog about brain

Hi everybody

A new born weblog that is about brain is now ready to be studied :)

This is My friend, Sepideh's blog.

you can see it here. ^_^