Photosynthetic Chasms of Wonderment

I recalled the day of class when Ms. Aber asked us to discuss what adjustments would have to be made and what would be the mental repercussions of switching bodies with plants. Then I asked myself, what if we didn't switch bodies with plants, but by various mechanisms of karma--probably the same ones which made it possible for plants to have conscious thought--we switched lifestyles with plants? What if plants were physically permitted to move about even with the fragility of their limbs under their weight, and we had to stay in one place our entire lives? Would you be able to process the concept of plants simply walking and/or sliding to springs and fountains and literally just soak their roots in them for a bit? Would you or they ever get used to the idea of trees running from giraffes? How would they know where to go? Eyelessness! Would we begin to leave our self-induced evolutionary stasis and find new limbs selected for us? Or, being masters of adaptation, would human beings just change the direction of technology to adjust to the new condition? Or...would we become......EXTINCT!