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Do plants act like computers?

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Leaves appear to regulate their 'breathing' by conducting simple calculations.

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  1. Peak, D. A., West, J. D., Messinger, S. M & Mott, K. A. Evidence for complex, collective dynamics and emergent, distributed computation in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 101, 918 - 922, (2004).

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Ball, P. Do plants act like computers?. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news040119-5

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