According to a 1988 independent study on aneural networks dubbed the SKIN, the "brain" of a plant can be found on its "skin". The abbreviation S.K.I.N. is an acronym for System Kinesthetic Information Network, an alternative system of networks, developed by Lawsin, that stores and processes information without utilizing neurons or even by a brain .
Based on his theory on Information Materialization (IM), Lawsin argued that if plants have the ability to interact with each other and its environment, then plants have the capability "to label" things. Labeling, or the ability to associate or represent a thing with another object, a one to one correspondence indicator that determines when a thing is conscious or self-conscious, is a distinctive signature of I.M..
In one of his plant experiments, Lawsin (as he was mowing his backyard one day) created a miniaturized forest, a 3m x 3m space, entirely occupied by tall and small grasses. Surrounding this square was a 2m space perimeter. Plants on this area were all trimmed almost to the ground. After few months of observations, expecting that both area will be evenly covered with tall and small grasses, he discovered surprisingly a remarkable result: plants were some way creating a kind of interactive relationship with each other that was beneficial or advantage to both. In the miniaturize forest, the tall grasses thrived without even occupying the small grasses space. On the other hand, the small grasses became finer, greener, and happily expanding in all directions. Lawsin inferred that it seems there was a big-brother relationship that was manifesting here; the tall grasses were taking good care of the small grasses.
From this simple experiment, Lawsin claimed that plants have the ability to process information. It might be chemical, electrical, physical or mechanical pending on the results of his ongoing plants experiments. But as a complex living system, he argued that plants are also made up of actuators and sensors. These actuators and sensors may not be as complex as the eyes, ears, nose of a human being but they can probably see, hear, smell, touch, taste and communicate with other plants only in different ways. Plants existed before humans with the same system of sensors and actuators and will still live and thrive with the same system when humans go instinct. Sensors and actuators may look different, but actually they are all one and the same (see string telephone).
In humans, all the biological sensors, actuators, and the nervous system where the brain is a part evolved from the largest organ of the body, the skin. The nervous system is a complex network of nerves and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. It includes both the Central nervous system and Peripheral nervous system. The Central nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord while The Peripheral nervous system is made up of the Somatic and the Autonomic nervous systems. In the spinal cord, the nerves of both actuators and sensors are located.
In plants, they may not have a nervous system but they have nerves and vessels in the forms of veins, stems, and roots that can be used to channel information.
Comparisons of brains between animals and humans (see also tiny brains):
"Nature doesn't need a brain to be intelligent"
~ Joey Lawsin
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