First Microbes, Now Plants!

Clever plants chat over the network

This is just a brief brainwave because I don't feel it's particularly on-topic. But a lot of articles recently have really made me question our assumptions about the distinctions we as humans make between life-forms. But between microbes and plants (above link) forming these networks, to the recently dead parrot with the intelligence of a child (how intelligent are other animals that simply can't express themselves in human sounds?), I really am rethinking a lot of things. And this is coming from someone who for 15 years has been a vegetarian for moral reasons. I think a lot of this has also been informed by Capra's book, but more on that in its own post.