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What is the wood-wide web? How does it help trees communicate with each other?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Finding the Mother Tree<\/em>, Suzanne Simard discovered that trees are intertwined via fungus in a complex resource-sharing network. She compares this to an internet satellite system, which she refers to as the \u201cwood-wide web.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about the wood-wide web below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Wood-Wide Web<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another reason Simard\u2019s research has been so strongly resisted over time, she says, is simply the tenacity of the long-held competition model and the way it reflects the cultural perspective it grew out of. Competition for resources has been the prevailing paradigm for understanding nature throughout the history of modern Western science<\/a>. In fact, it\u2019s the predominant model for understanding all relationships, including those in human societies and economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simard\u2019s research suggests that competition is not<\/em> the defining nature of the relationship between the trees and other plant life; the major dynamic is cooperation<\/em> within the wood-wide web.<\/strong> We’ll look at how the wood-wide web model reflects a different view of nature, one that\u2019s more consistent with our understanding of how our own bodies work, as well as with how some non-Western traditional societies function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthropomorphizing the Trees<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Some ecologists still critique Simard\u2019s conclusions<\/a> and emphasize the importance of recognizing competition in ecosystems. This seems to be a major ongoing battle of perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simard has been accused of \u201canthropomorphizing\u201d the trees, while simultaneously overemphasizing their cooperative nature. However, seeing trees as inherently competitive is more<\/em> modern-human-like. Perhaps the scientists who can\u2019t imagine trees having a symbiotic cooperative nature are more<\/em> guilty of anthropomorphizing them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview, Simard says<\/a>, \u201cOur culture is not merely one of competition for scarce resources and the profits inherent in that scarcity. It is competition for competition\u2019s sake\u2026we compete aggressively just to do that, not for any gain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forests as Organisms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In terms of how its components function interdependently, Simard concludes that a forest is essentially a single organism, like the human body. <\/strong>The wood-wide web between trees, she says, is similar to the neural networks in our brains, with the mycelium being the synapses along which nutrients, like neurotransmitters, travel. And like our brains, this is also a communication network that she says is \u201cwired for wisdom, sentience, and healing.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, there is some amount of competition and dysfunction in a forest ecosystem<\/a>, Simard acknowledges, just like in our bodies. We get diseases, and if we\u2019re nutrient deficient our various organs and cells may compete for those nutrients. But if the body is healthy, the major operational mode is cooperation between the parts. Simard says a forest operates the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma<\/em><\/a> and The Botany of Desire<\/em><\/a>, says that until recently, even mentioning the possibility that plants could have intelligence would get you labeled a \u201cwhacko.\u201d However, he says that the latest research supports the idea<\/a>. The relatively new field of plant neurobiology shows that plants process sensory data in much the same way humans do. While that processing doesn\u2019t happen via a brain, plants have their own sensory systems, and Pollan says plants have all the same senses as humans. He concludes that intelligence is an inherent feature of life.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ecosystems as Societies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Of course, there are more than just trees and fungi in a forest; a forest is a complex ecosystem of diverse flora and fauna. Simard says we can think of the larger forest ecosystems as similar to human societies. They\u2019re complex, self-organizing, and adaptive. And, importantly, she says they are intelligent<\/em>, especially with evidence of the wood-wide web.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because ecosystems operate similarly to human societies, this could explain why we find a prevailing paradigm of competition in the modern scientific worldview and a paradigm of cooperation<\/em> in the traditional indigenous worldview<\/a>. Each paradigm is modeled after the society within which it develops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simard points out that objectifying nature, thinking of humans as separate from it (and even above it) is a modern Western construct<\/strong> and reflective of a colonialist mindset. First Nations tribes of the region had a symbiotic relationship with the land and existed entirely within these forest ecological communities, rather than viewing them from the outside. She ties all of this into the pressing issue of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change, she argues, is occurring in large part because of human activities, and these activities are the product of a mindset that has moved away from viewing nature as living, sentient, and sacred, toward a mindset that can\u2019t even imagine trees as sentient beings that have relationships. This, Simard argues, needs to change. Only when we recognize the forests as alive and intelligent will we have the wisdom to recognize that we must honor them because our lives depend on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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