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General Ecology: Plantsex

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The Relationship Between the Human Brain and the Internet

A lot of my thinking revolves around consciousness and the idea that the human brain is not the limit of consciousness. I'll mention this artwork from the 70s that I thought was kind of interesting in relation to the topic. This performance called Grafting by Peter Stenbere, where he literally grafted a plant like a little twig on his arm and tried to have it grow. It actually, it didn't quite work out, so he got like a blood pollution or something out of it and it had to be stopped. Maybe the plant didn't want to grow. But it's like a beautiful idea, I think, like kind of sharing or becoming almost like this seed storage

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