Jessica's Plant is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is resolved by repeating the occurrence for two or more characters or groups while neither is aware that the other experienced the same thing. Its function is generally to resolve an otherwise irresolvable plot situation, to appease the story teller, to bring the tale allow the story to continue unimpeded, or act as a comedic device.
"Hey, did ever read Stealy Cap?"
"Yeah, the writing is lazy though. Each book is just a new Jessica's Plant because Stealy and his enemies never remember anything."
"Yeah, the writing is lazy though. Each book is just a new Jessica's Plant because Stealy and his enemies never remember anything."
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This phrase is usually uttered in exasperation when someone is taking too long to tell a story, get to the point, etc.
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Clay continued to talk even tho meghan wasn’t listening to him anymore really.
“You need to land your plane already, Clay.” Meghan told him.
“You need to land your plane already, Clay.” Meghan told him.
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Get the Water Treatment Plant mug.The debate over whether plants' complex adaptive behaviors—like root networks solving resource distribution puzzles or leaves optimizing sunlight capture—count as a form of "thinking." The hard problem here is: If they have no neurons, where and what is the "cognitive workspace"? How do we recognize cognition in a system so alien, operating on a timescale of hours or days, without a central processor? It's the challenge of defining cognition so it isn't just "brain-based information processing," potentially forcing us to see intelligence in silent, slow-motion biological algorithms.
Example: "The vine grew a perfect path through the lattice, avoiding painted (toxic) sections. The hard problem of plant cognition: Was that a cognitive choice, a simple chemical tropism, or a beautiful, mindless computation? And if there's no difference in outcome, does the 'mind' part even matter?"
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