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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

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I just finished Peter Wohlleben’s latest, and it’s a masterclass in system architecture. As someone who spends life thinking about scalability, resilience, and complex networks, I’ve realized we’re often just trying to replicate what trees perfected m ...more
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The central idea: the brain isn’t fixed. It rewires itself based on experience. Pathways that get used, strengthen. Pathways that don’t, fade. This was considered radical when Doidge wrote it. Now it’s foundational neuroscience. But here’s what hit me ...more
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