In this case, the failure of a sub-network of the Internet will be analogous to the destruction of a portion of a rain forest. The information pathways of a phytocomputer. The 32 dots represent 32 routers. The 16 squares represent 16 processing nodes. If water is the blood of the Earth, trees are its lungs.
Many religions revere trees.
Buddha gained enlightenment while sitting beneath a tree. IBM research chemist Marcel Vogel conducted research that convinced him that trees can read our minds. Plants are living objects, sensitive, rooted in space. They may be blind, deaf, and dumb in the human sense, but there is no doubt in my mind that they are extremely sensitive instruments for measuring man's emotions. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that plants may possess intelligence.