Dion's Laboratory Journal.

Hi, Dion here. This is the diary of my orchard and my garden, I demand that nobody touch it and when I say nobody I mean it to you, Name.

- This study is old, some theories have been disproved, so don't think all of this is true.

- This text is a translation from Latin made by an artificial intelligence, please forgive us if there are any misspellings.

- We beg you not to imitate the experiments that we are going to narrate if you do not have the proper equipment and if you have not read everything.

- Book donated by the royal family for student use, some details have been removed to ensure privacy.

- We assume that you have knowledge about botany, if not, some concepts will be incomprehensible to you.

- We start now.

Day 1.

Mimosa pudica also known as touch me not, this plant can react to external stimuli, so I will use them as an example to talk about the consciousness of plants.

By hiding their leaves they disguise themselves as a withered plant, they protect themselves from the wind, heat or predators. 

I call them the sex plant, they can serve as an aphrodisiac in men and as an antifertilizer that alters ovulation. Why do I mention this? If human behavior can be altered, can we do the same with plants?

The movement of the pulvinus of Mimosa pudica is a change in the volume of the abaxial motor cell as a response. Ion channels can be activated. Ion transport in the pulvinus makes the water move so cells lose volume. Among the chemicals involved in this movement are potassium (K+) and chlorine (Cl-). I also found H+ and Ca2+ ions.

When a human neuron orders something to another, it sends an electrical signal down its axon, in which the electrical signal is converted into a chemical signal.

I have verified that potassium also participates in this process, as well as electricity that includes the movement of ions.

I have no doubt that plants can think, but I need more study time to prove it. Of course they can't think too complex thoughts, they are living beings locked in their bodies without the sense of sight and with limited communication skills. If I show that plants remember, I will be able to defend them and turn them into citizens with rights.

I thank my brother Dr. Ira InWhite for the information about the human body.