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 seeded fields might indeed have stimulated plants to grow**.
----electronics engineer-L. George Lawrence believed that biological radiations transmitted by living things are best received
+---electronics engineer L. George Lawrence believed that biological radiations transmitted by living things are best received
-by a biological medium.
+by a biological medium. biological-type sensors
+are needed in order to intercept biological signals, applies particularly to
+communications from outer space. As he puts it: "Standard electronics
+are next to worthless here, since 'bio-signals' apparently reside outside
+of the known electromagnetic spectrum."
+---1920s the Russian histologist Alexander Gurwitsch and his
+wife, proclaimed that all living cells produce an invisible radiation.
+---Since glass and gelatin are known to block various ultraviolet
+frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum.
+them. Pg 54
+---1969. Four main questions, said Lawrence, were starting to attract serious
+attention: **Could plants be integrated with electronic readouts to form
+major data sensors and transducers? Could they be trained to respond
+to the presence of selected objects and images? Were their alleged
+supersensory perceptions verifiable? Of the 350,000 plant species known
+to science, which were the most promising from the electronic point of
+view**?  Pg 56
+"There are certain qualities here," he wrote,
+"which do not enter into normal experimental situations. According to
+those experimenting in this area, it is necessary to have a 'green thumb'
+and, most important, a genuine love for plants."  Pg 57