MODERN FABLE: THE INTUITIVE TOMATO PLANT

J.Kristin

There exists a special tomato plant variety that learns the needs of the family who planted it based on how often the fruit is picked. This is not a "frankenmater" produced in some Silicon Valley AI lab, with generations of genetically enhanced, nano chip algorithm infused plants. No, it is more of an understanding between species: we provide favorable growing conditions of sun, soil and water and in return, the plant provides fruit that we can eat. In this case, this particular variety senses how much to produce and one must consider that this action might (at least to put it into human terms) instill a sense of satisfaction. They are neither servile or the victims of bullying, this is simply what they do. Their lives last only a season, arcing from the cool nights of their seedling planting, to their first flowering and first fruiting, to the full muscular production of progeny that slowly wanes in the September sun, ending with the first killing frosts. 

We could do worse with our own lives.