John Carlos Baez on Nostr: Wow: you can knock out a plant with anesthetics - the same anesthetics that work on ...
Wow: you can knock out a plant with anesthetics - the same anesthetics that work on people!
It's easist to see for plants that move, like a Venus fly trap. But experiments have shown it's true for others too.
We're still struggling to figure out what this means. We don't really know how anesthetics work, but here's a clue: you don't need to have neurons to get anesthetized!
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