Jun 28, 2022
Professor Suzanne Simard visits Google to discuss her book "Finding
the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest." Simard
writes about how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years,
have evolved, perceive one another, learn and adapt their
behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past. She also
illustrates how they have agency about the future, elicit warnings
and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with
sophistication, and possess other characteristics typically
ascribed to human intelligence.
Born and raised in the rainforests of British Columbia, Simard
writes of her days as a child spent cataloging the forest trees and
how she came to love and respect them. As she writes of her
scientific quest, she tells of her own journey, making us
understand how scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology
- that it is instead about us knowing who we are and our place in
the world.
Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.