[WildTurkey]

So you don't sleep?

Yes but plants shut off their respiration at night for greater efficency. Most of us snore the night away.

[bvw]

My favorite part of biology is at night. And yes -- I did fall asleep in every class. Except quantum mechanics and advanced numerical methods -- both of which the professors brutally fast pace better matched my wakeing mind.

The question of animal and vegetable is sort of Maxwell's Demon type entropy question, btw. Or one 2atHomeMom might consider. How is that? We have two gases in the same tank. One I'll label animal, the other I'll label vegetable.

Are they at equilibrium? And if at informatiomal-energy (to posit some energy-like metric that measures evolutionary advancement) equilibrium why haven't vegetables eveolved independent motion? Or why did animals?