Chiolerio Alessandro, Vitiello Giuseppe, Dehshibi Mohammad Mahdi, Adamatzky Andrew
Center for Converging Technologies, Bioinspired Soft Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16065 Genova, Italy.
Unconventional Computing Laboratory, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK.
Biomimetics (Basel). 2023 Mar 14;8(1):122. doi: 10.3390/biomimetics8010122.
The in situ measurement of the bioelectric potential in and superior plants reveals valuable insights into the biological activity of these organisms, including their responses to lunar and solar cycles and collective behaviour. This paper reports on the "Cyberforest Experiment" conducted in the open-air Paneveggio forest in Valle di Fiemme, Trento, Italy, where spruce (i.e., ) is cultivated. Our analysis of the bioelectric potentials reveals a strong correlation between higher-order complexity measurements and thermodynamic entropy and suggests that bioelectrical signals can reflect the metabolic activity of plants. Additionally, temporal correlations of bioelectric signals from different trees may be precisely synchronized or may lag behind. These correlations are further explored through the lens of quantum field theory, suggesting that the forest can be viewed as a collective array of in-phase elements whose correlation is naturally tuned depending on the environmental conditions. These results provide compelling evidence for the potential of living plant ecosystems as environmental sensors.
对高等植物体内生物电势的原位测量揭示了这些生物体的生物活性的宝贵见解，包括它们对月球和太阳周期的反应以及集体行为。本文报道了在意大利特伦托省菲耶梅谷的露天帕内韦ggio森林中进行的“网络森林实验”，那里种植了云杉（即 ）。我们对生物电势的分析揭示了高阶复杂性测量与热力学熵之间的强相关性，并表明生物电信号可以反映植物的代谢活动。此外，来自不同树木的生物电信号的时间相关性可能精确同步，也可能滞后。通过量子场论的视角进一步探索了这些相关性，这表明森林可以被视为同相元素的集体阵列，其相关性根据环境条件自然调节。这些结果为活植物生态系统作为环境传感器的潜力提供了令人信服的证据。
