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> plant machete has a control system that reads and utilizes the electrical noises found in a live philodendron

I didn’t assume it says it first thing in the article

They use the term informally. You seem to be assuming much more than you or they can know: that the signals picked up are, in fact random. Not understanding their meaning, if any, is fundamentally different from knowing they are random.

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