!); placed under threat many speed up their life reproductive cycle.... This does appear to be the application of a "programmed knowledge". But by the time this happens these are living organisms, as a seed most of this is dormant and if you think that's all packed into one celery seed or some even finer miniscule flower seeds it gets.... well, spooky! Magic? Spiritual? Add your own word.) Interestingly a human baby would be the opposite of your lamb example and for some time not have the capacity to achieve head up. But in the case of the lamb you've moved into the animal world where I think it's more generally accepted that young are part pre-programmed and part copying the herd (or Mum). But plants don't copy Mum do they? (I always feel desperately sorry for parent (seed) potatoes when cropping their kids, talk about devotion to duty....). Most animals including humans can be trained by voice and sound (whistle etc) but plants? Are there plants that turn away if you shout at them? But at the same time it seems they are not inert or without feelings. I once saw a TV programmed attempting to demonstrate that a cauliflower "shrieked" when being cooked. Put me right off cauliflower cheese (for a week!)
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I think it has to be a gravity sensor, like a marble in an empty eggshell, it will always settle in the bottom when gravity at work thereby pointing "down". But all that squashed into a celery seed? Clever! And it STILL means seeds and seedlings have "sense", "knowledge" whatever, and if that's a correct conclusion that must surely have profound consequences?
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