Thank you for bringing in this type of plant simulation, like animal and insect simulation, camouflage, it's absolutely fascinating! When an animal or insect simulates it's environment it makes use of how are senses work, how are brain can be tricked.
There is something fishy with this type of simulation... As the plant releases the enzymes that smell like decaying bodies, I wonder how similar they are, are they exactly the same type of enzymes, I mean in chemical structures? That would mean that here the actual outcome is the same, and only the process of creation different, but both outcomes are 'real'. As if it's a kind of synthetic decay, the plant as a kind of death Synthesizer...
Jennifer
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From: jeni wightman <jw93@cornell.edu>
To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 4:40:46 PM
Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] simulation and energy
i was just at the bronx, ny, botanic gardens and i saw my first ever corpse flower.
it had passed its prime. it didn't smell like the rotting animal it simulates when it is inviting accidental pollinators who thrive by eating rotting animals (not by pollinating) and in their search for rot, they pick up the pollen and take it to the next rotting corpse or corpse flower.
when i told a friend about this this, he relayed a story about seeing a corpse flower too:
"I saw a corpse flower after its peak, and couldn't smell a thing either. Funny how it loses its smell as it dies. Simulation of rot requires energy to maintain."
i really appreciated the post a while back that said something to the effect that simulation is life, is living. that the time it takes to 'act' or 'enact' a simulation or event, one *is living* that very event of simulating. the corpse flower allocated precious energy and resources to simulate rot (so to attract specific bugs and beetles that would find another rot-smelling flower). when a thing simulates, it is allocating resources to mimic/copy/learn/relate. is life in its diverse innovation driven by collages of context.
jeni
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