• flora_explora@beehaw.org
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    2 hours ago

    This has absolutely nothing to do with the meme apart from similar wording. The underlying mechanisms are completely different

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      4 hours ago

      Judging from the name of the plant alone, it’s just one of these plants where the leaves somehow retract in reaction to some stimuli, right ?

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        It’s in the same genus as species who show this behavior, yes. Not sure if this specific species does it though. In any case, even with non-retracting species the interaction is between plant and observing human. In the meme it is just between particles and their environment in general, not related to an observer.