I’m experimenting with my new camera, a mirrorless Canon R6. My fractal cousin, a next door neighbor posed for this photo to allow me to test resolution.
What is more amazing? New camera technology that can capture fractal branches so well? Or the fact that trees and human beings had a common ancestor who lived about 385 million years ago? Or that the offspring of beings that evolved into trees invented an extremely high tech camera? Or that one of those far-distant offspring pointed this high tech camera at a tree and became self-reflective.
I once had the unearned honor and pleasure to spend an afternoon with a great-nice of Wallow Sierpinski, who contributed significantly to the understanding of fractals. We discussed Sierpinski’s work, and I quickly discovered which of the two of us was closer to the tree branch of life, and it wasn’t her. She left me in the dust after ten minutes.
Have we considered citizenship for plants? Based on recent voting, I doubt it would lower the average IQ of the American voter.
I worry about plant legal rights. If animals are off limits because they are sentient and plants vote to protect themselves from humans, what will humans eat? And how do you keep wildlife from breaking the law by eating plants. And how do you allocate political power: One weed, one vote?