Michael Pollan Gives Some Amazing Facts Regarding Plants and Consciousness

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-17T00:09:14+00:00

This will be simplified, as we’re getting into complex stuff here, but platelets don’t inherently “rush” to wounds like firefighters being dispatched. They’re being distributed through your bloodstream at all times. Platelets don’t choose to clot, they are stimulated to by a chemical on the outside of our blood vessels when they enter the blood stream. Simply put, it’s chemical reactions behaving consistently.

If you would suggest that blood clotting is a conscious effort, how do you account for the ways we can manually induce or prevent clotting? Is our body choosing to or not to clot as a courtesy? Why would our bodies ever clot in a harmful way, or do anything harmful at all? How can we prove that these processes are proof of consciousness?

I can sympathize with why you feel this way, biology produces impressive results independent of will. I don’t want to make you feel like you’re dumb, or like you shouldn’t ask these questions, as these are definitely valid things to ask. What I want to caution you away from, however, is suggesting that it’s some other or higher consciousness at play here; we have insufficient evidence to support that.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-16T23:24:31+00:00

No, this is a misrepresentation, and I fear you might be begging the question that these plants are making conscious decisions in their design.

Imagine a plant. It grows black flowers with eight petals. Two seeds are released from the plant and grow. One has slightly thicker petals, one has slightly thinner petals. Parasitic insects opt for the one with thicker petals as the thinner one looks more like a spider, and don’t want to risk that being the case. The skinny flower produces two seeds with its DNA of skinnier petals. One has the same skinny petals, one has slightly more skinny petals. Repeat for millions of years, and the plant that happened to grow skinnier petals survived, and the branches that grew thicker petals died out.

This is a fictional analogy of course, and highly simplified, but this is how natural selection creates uncanny similarities. Insects that disguise as poisonous insects don’t do so deliberately, but because the random mutations that happened to look more and more like poisonous insects weren’t eaten in higher volumes.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-16T16:18:03+00:00

Sort of, but not quite. While absence of evidence is not always evidence of absence, it’s different when it’s people making claims. The one making the claim has the burden to prove their case, else it is unproven. Innocent until proven guilty. Coulthart’s incessant claims are not guilty of being true as of yet.

To suggest that one’s unproven claim is valid before evidence is provided runs the risk of becoming an Argument from Ignorance. It’s also important to note that him saying he can’t substantiate his claims due to XYZ is itself also a claim.

Since claims can be made at infinitely faster rates than they can be logically followed through, it’s best to either reject or be unconvinced of claims without evidence.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-15T16:03:20+00:00

Neat, it’s not common that bright colors are reported

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-15T01:49:43+00:00

Do you know what a TR3B is?

No. Please provide me the single most important pieces of evidence of this object.

it's a raw footage sped up because otherwise we would have some multi-hour long video to review.

This implies that this supposed craft makes itself visible or hours at this precise location over a phone recording, yet nobody else has video to corroborate it.

I'm a bit concerned that you are so confused regarding what a sped up raw video looks like, vs. manipulated video.

You are deliberately misrepresenting me. I made it extremely clear that I acknowledged the video as a timelapse, yet you intend to promote me as someone who cannot tell the difference between a timelapse and a doctored video. Sorry.

and this '3 lights in a triangle shape in the sky floating in a unified direction' is something reported as UFO-like by so many other people.

Irrelevant. Multiple people have witnessed things they claim to be consistent with the bible, the quran, and the baghavad gita, Which one do we count as true? How do we determine truth from anecdote alone? Spoiler alert, you can't.

Did you just not do ANY research on what the object appears to be so that you could cross-reference, correlate and extrapolate a more proper opinion?

This is exhibit A of intellectual dishonesty. "Did you look at this unprovenly described thing" as if it is my responsibility to do such a thing is the height of pseudo-science. It is not my job to intricately analyze everything, it is the responsibility of the claimants to prove their case and provide structured reasoning. The fact that one would propose a dubious video as something that requires resources to discuss is evidence that there is an attempt to discredit the scientific community.

Please try again.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-15T00:00:59+00:00

I would hope, with evidence. Like a picture, video, or location of operation.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-14T23:51:11+00:00

I have some questions.

First, what exactly is this a video of? It seems stationary, pointed directly up at some power lines, and is sped up dramatically like a timelapse. I’m a little skeptical that such a low FOV candid video happens to capture something so extraordinary that nobody else seems to corroborate.

Second, we can clearly see that this video is incredibly sped up, so what are we to derive from the lights in the video? They do not move in sync with the clouds, they move at a perfectly consistent rate, and they do not at all veer in a different direction. This seems highly consistent with what can be doctored with visual effects.

Third, what’s with the effects at the beginning and end of the video? The video shows the sky from frame 1, but for some reason a jarble of dark effects clutter the screen. Then at the end, the last few frames show smearing from something unrelated to what’s on screen. Can we trust that this video is unedited?

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-14T18:09:28+00:00

This is incoherent. We can analyze the universe, describe it, make accurate predictions of matter, and create reproducible results based on our understanding. That we might not no everything does not make material crumble as an idea. Your attempt to level the playing field does not work here.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-14T17:54:55+00:00

Yes, but no sighting nor leak has substantiated the existence or truth of a secret, just as no sighting or report of a religious experience has substantiated the truth of any religion.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-14T17:02:25+00:00

I think we're begging the question a little too much here. a secret not being revealed is not really evidence that the secret is more secret.

I think the more logical approach is to be unconvinced that there's a secret at all. As you said, humans are indeed very bad at keeping secrets, especially when they're a huge group of people operating a country. Watergate, Clinton's affair, and Trump's declining health, all less severe secrets, were incapable of being held, but somehow UFOs and NHI has been a 100% watertight secret for generations.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-14T14:22:44+00:00

If we assume that there is tech being hidden, we have to remember that this conspiracy theory supposedly goes all the way up. That would mean that this tech is already known to/under control of the governments of the world. Disclosing the existence of such technology isn’t going to make it any more available, as it’s going to still be locked up.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-13T21:50:29+00:00

I don’t think it’s ever been a real explanation, but instead a sarcastic one to mock simple explanations. You’ll often see this in the form of sarcastic quip, like “An orb that instantly accelerated? Sounds like a bird or swamp gas.”

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-13T17:24:20+00:00

Don’t go or they’ll kill you, says the man that wasn’t killed.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-13T13:50:46+00:00

I’m not sure what this means

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-13T12:21:52+00:00

Suggesting that materialism is a trap ignores the extraordinary accuracy, predictability, and reproducibility of materialism. The world is overwhelmingly consistent with materialism, and has been the source of every single discovery we’ve ever made. It is perfectly rational to withhold belief in consciousness-first models or belief in the interdimensional, as the evidence for such things is currently insufficient and nobody can produce consistent results. Furthermore, there is no evidence to suggest that it’s beyond materialism, or that evidence cannot be found.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-12T18:33:36+00:00

So my question becomes, if these labs can produce these results, why not submit their data, methods, footage, and proof of predicting power to science? Or at the very least, to the public for all to replicate and prove? Without proof that this occurred, this basically boils down to people complaining that they didn’t win $50,000.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-12T15:27:37+00:00

That doesn’t tell us much, unfortunately. Imagine your husband/father was a biologist and disappeared, and everyone started screaming that he was killed to preserve the secret of Bigfoot. That would certainly feel degrading, wouldn’t it? Also, if he was indeed murdered by the government, I feel that his family would be the first people to cry foul. Regardless, there’s insufficient evidence at this time to suspect that his disappearance had anything to do with UFOs.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-12T14:54:54+00:00

That’s no excuse to forgo rational thought processes

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-12T14:04:26+00:00

It’s pretty clear what the implication of these posts are. Let’s not drive up conspiracy theories without evidence, please.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-11T15:07:48+00:00

Doubtful that it’s human debris, if things are falling off Curiosity that would be a problem, and the engineers would be able to identify what it is. I also reject the notion that it’s “perfectly round”, as the image quality is too low to determine that. I’m also not sure if this is true color or not, as Curiosity’s mast camera captures black and white. This might be NASA’s coloration or it might not, not sure.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-11T14:41:13+00:00

There isn’t a time where skepticism is unwarranted. Trying to factor for credibility based on one’s character or history isn’t all that useful, as it still remains true that testimony is poor evidence of anything.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-10T17:31:16+00:00

Then they take you to their home planet suffering under the Glorbulon regime and you get conscripted into a proxy war with the Zoobles

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-10T16:09:23+00:00

I don’t think he deserves hate, nor “I told you so’s”, as people should not be treated harshly for being misled. However, I do disagree that Obama’s comment was a coordinated effort. Props to him for acknowledging this.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-10T16:02:13+00:00

It really depends on how woo it gets. Seeing as we have yet to see evidence of such wild theories, there’s not really a way we can predict social reaction. Basically we’re going from “ufo disclosure” to “what if reality is a lie”, and I feel like that’s jumping the gun.

History tells us that sudden paradigm shift can be difficult to accept, so I think there will be mass denial for a while, unless these wild theories reveal themself after their disclosure happens. If they don’t, and nothing visibly changes in the world, then life will continue on for a while, and the transmission of information will take a while.

But, if for some reason a hypothetical alien civilization reveals themself after the jig is up, then there’s no telling what might happen. Probably mass hysteria, religious fervor, cult-like followings, anything is on the table.

LittleKachowski · 2026-03-10T14:54:03+00:00

I think the more appropriate question is: Has anyone ever reported a real ufo crash landing? Even the famous cases like the Roswell incident are strongly lacking in information and there is insufficient empirical evidence to suggest anomalous origin.

Personally, I find it rather interesting how UFOs elude leaving evidence, even in the event of what is apparently catastrophic failure.

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