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我们过去常常用“人非草木,孰能无情”来体现人类丰富的情感,可植物是否真的没有感情了?以前,没有人考虑过这个问题,直到三十多年前的一个偶然机会,才使科学家们对植物的感情问题产生了浓厚的兴趣。那是在1966年2月的一天上午,有位名叫巴克斯特的情报专家,正在给庭院花草浇水时,脑子里突然出现了一个古怪的念头,也许是经常与间谍、情报打交道的原因,他竟异想天开地把测谎仪器的电极,绑到一株天南星植物的叶片
In the past, we often used human beings to express human emotions. Can plants really have no feelings? Before, no one thought about this problem until a chance happened more than 30 years ago. It gave scientists a keen interest in the emotional issues of plants. It was in the morning of February 1966, when an intelligence expert named Baxter was watering the gardens and flowers, a strange idea suddenly appeared in his mind, perhaps the reason why he often dealt with spies and intelligence. He whimsically tied the electrodes of the polygraph instrument to the leaves of an Araceae plant.