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-**PARN Project
+====PARN Project: Human-plant communication - research diary====
-Human-plant communication - research diary**
 Lionel
-__Thirsday 04/07/2011__
+===Friday 26/08/2011===
-° Lybarinth page
+  * Order seeds of Mimosa pudica (on www.graines.be)\\
-°
+  * Visit a webpage about [[http://www.bashanfoundation.org/heil/heilpub.html|Ant-Plant Mutualism (2010) M. Heil]], with lot of references\\
+  * Wikipedia search: [[w>Myrmecophily]]
-__Wednesday 03/07/2011__
-Start meeting with Nick & Maja
+===Thursday 25/08/2011===
-Research starting points:
+  * Rapid research about interactions beween plants and animals/microbes/plants.\\
-° Reach a broad spectrum going from science <----> para-science
+  * Prospective thoughts about possible (or less possible) experiments.\\
-° Special attention to //stories//. Stories made to justify some logical shortcuts in speudo-scientific demonstrations, stories on the side of classical research, etc.
-° Think of experiment to test some pseudo-scientific claims (plants grow faster if you speak to them). Those experiments are not meant to be realized.
-° Make an overview of the research in the field of plant-plant communication. Neurobotany, sensory ecology, chemical communication between plants, etc.
-° Speculative science: what do we need to build a //translator// to interfer with those signals?
-Literature starting points:
+===Tuesday 23/08/2011===
-° Experiments of Laurence (~1950). Onion attached to a telescope, and other strange experiments.
-° HPI paper on the Lybarinth
+(Platform Kanal summer lab in FoAM's studio)
-° Sci-fi writer K. Schröder. Idea of thalience, switched subjectivity. Idea that the value of a model is not only determined by the fact it is true or not, but also by its ability to generate other models and ideas ("heuristicity").
-° T. McKenna, Archaic Revival, Chapter about plan/plant/planet. Phytomimicry and techno-gaianism.
+===Monday 22/08/2011===
-° P. Stamets, Mycelium Running, global considerations about mycelium as nature's internet.
+  * Visit at the VUB library to identify interesting reference books about plant physiology:\\
+° //Biology of Plants, 7th edition// (2005), P. Raven, R. Evert, S. Eichhorn - W. H. Freeman & co Publishers\\
+Very general and pedagogic, lot of pictures. Botany, histology, a bit of molecular biology. Reader-friendly, nice to browse randomly (essays, topics, etc.). But: ugly hardcover, and 7th edition seems to be the last one.\\
+° //Plant physiology, 4th edition// (2006), L. Taiz & E. Zeiger - Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers\\
+More experiment-oriented. A lot about plant development and metabolic pathways. Graphs, molecular structures. 5th edition released in 2010.\\
+° //Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants// (2009), B. Buchanan, W. Gruissem, R. Jones - American Society of Plant Physiologists\\
+Very good and exhaustive reference book. Very molecular-, protein- and biochemistry-oriented. Big: 1367 pages!\\
+===Friday 19/08/2011===
+  * Web search about the use of plants action potentials in artistic installations:
+° [[http://ivanhenriques.wordpress.com/|Ivan Henrique - 'Jurema Action Plant']]\\
+° [[http://www.scenocosme.com/phonofolium.htm|Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt - 'Phonolium']]\\
+  * Visit at iMAL
+===Thursday 18/08/2011===
+  * Further reading of previously mentioned articles and books\\
+===Wednesday 17/08/2011===
+(General meeting at FoAM)
+===Tuesday 16/08/2011===
+  * Futher investigation about 'plant neurobiology'\\
+° Struik et al (2008) //Plant neurobiology and green plant intelligence: science, metaphors and nonsense//\\
+An intelligent, precise and critical reflection about the subject, written by researchers that are not part of the 'Baluska & Mancuso friend's group'.\\
+° Koziolek et al (2003) //Transient knockout of photosynthesis mediated by electrical signals//\\
+In this paper, the authors relate an experiment to measure electrical signals and other parameters in //Mimosa pudica//\\
+===Friday 12/08/2011===
+  * About the measurements of action potentials in plants: [[http://electrochem.cwru.edu/encycl/art-p01-plants.htm|Webpage]] by A.G. Volkov about the electrochemistry of plant life.\\
+  * There is a journal for [[http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/loi/mpmi|Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions]]. Beyond a one-year embargo, new articles are in Open Access ([[wp>Delayed open access journal]]).
+===Thursday 11/08/2011===
+  * New libarynth page about [[plant_neurobiology|plant neurobiology]]
+  * New libarynth page with a [[open_access_journals_list|list of some Open Access Journals]]
+===Wednesday 10/08/2011===
+  * Read the article of Peter W. Barlow (2008)
+  * Wikipedia search about: convergent evolution, exaptation, morphogen, metamerism
+===Friday 05/08/2011===
+  * Search in the scientific literature about "plant neurobiology"\\
+° Peter W. Barlow (2008) Reﬂections on ‘plant neurobiology’ [review article]\\
+° Eric Davies (2004) New functions for electrical signals in plants [commentary]
+  * Short research meeting with Nik & Maja\\
+===Thursday 04/08/2011===
+  * Libarynth research diary
+  * T. McKenna, Archaic Revival (1991, book), p 219-225\\
+° Central idea: plants as inspirational model for solving global problems. Phytomimicry in industry, politics, personal life.\\
+° According to McKenna, the "lessons" of plants are:\\
+- societal/politics: feminization of culture\\
+- personal: inwardness, cooperation (symbiosis)\\
+- ecology: phytoremediation, biodiversity\\
+- industry: recycling, H2-economy, photovoltaic, nanotech\\
+° McKenna hopes a change of paradigm. Idea of the "rebirth of the [vegetal] Goddess". Spiritual or symbolic idea of the mother-earth, Gaia, etc.\\
+° Suggests that the use of psychedelic plants opens channels of direct communication with this Gaia.\\
+° McKenna speaks about "planetary purpose". Intentionality. (link to be made with Naturalism and Intelligent Design)\\
+  * Wikipedia search about:\\
+New Age Gaian, James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, Noepaganism, Pseudoscience, Falsifiability, Biopunk
+  * Some books found in the library:\\
+° Nature, technology and the sacred, Bronislaw Szerszynski, 2005. About the idea of the "disenchantment of the world", from a philosphy of science point of view.\\
+° Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino, 1965. Short stories. Science-like narratives, universe as a cosmic joke.\\
+° Psychedelic reimagined, Thomas Lyttle, ed., 1999. Collection of articles about psychedelic substances and practices.\\
+===Wednesday 03/08/2011===
+  * Start meeting with Nik & Maja
+  * Research starting points:\\
+° Reach a broad spectrum going from science < ---- > pseudo-science\\
+° Special attention to //stories//. Stories made to justify some logical shortcuts in speudo-scientific demonstrations, stories on the side of classical research, etc.\\
+° Think of experiment to test some pseudo-scientific claims (plants grow faster if you speak to them). Those experiments are not meant to be realized.\\
+° Make an overview of the research in the field of plant-plant communication. Neurobotany, sensory ecology, chemical communication between plants, etc.\\
+° Speculative science: what do we need to build a //translator// to interfer with those signals?\\
+  * Literature starting points:\\
+° Experiments of George Lawrence (~1950). Onion attached to a telescope, and other strange experiments.\\
+° HPI paper on the Lybarinth\\
+° Sci-fi writer K. Schröder. Idea of thalience, switched subjectivity. Idea that the value of a model is not only determined by the fact it is true or not, but also by its ability to generate other models and ideas ("heuristicity").\\
+° T. McKenna, Archaic Revival, Chapter about plan/plant/planet. Phytomimicry and techno-gaianism.\\
+° P. Stamets, Mycelium Running, global considerations about mycelium as nature's internet.\\