This does not thereby imply that one needs to be a philosopher.
However, it is entirely another matter whether a plant is able to bind together the manifold varieties of its experience and thereby form – and here one needs the language of metaphor - a representation of itself and of its world upon the screen of a plant mind (phyto-mind).
The downside is that it is tasteless (meaning undetectable by the taste buds, as opposed to being an indication of its being tawdry and low-class), thereby not being an option when one needs a snack and nothing else is around.
In contrast, if one knows that this is the right way to go, then one will be more sanguine in the light of this development, and thus will in all likelihood press on regardless (and thereby have one's confidence rewarded by getting where one needs to go).
For Barack Obama a 2003 invasion of Iraq undertaken without a civil-military stabilization plan -- thereby producing a catastrophic occupation and virulent insurgency -- represents all one needs to know about the efficacy of American military power in the Middle East.
To compute this, one needs to enumerate each k-mer with its occurrence count, thereby updating counters that were initialized to zero.
