In studying shamanism for a project, I learned that many shamanistic cultures have medicinal herbal treatments that the shamans came up with after taking a trance-inducing substance and communing with the plants. The plants themselves told the shaman how they could be used by him/her. So if you believe in shamanism, plants, animals, and rocks can talk if you're in the right frame of mind. If you don't believe in shamanism, it's just some really high dude having delusions and eating weird stuff he finds on the ground.Sommer Leigh wrote:Like, what could possibly have motivated that first person who saw a chicken essentially drop an egg from its bottom and think, "Man, I'm totally going to eat that thing."
So perhaps some really tranced out/high person watched a chicken lay an egg...
On a related note, here is one of my favorite quotes from a Time Magazine article: The first artificial sweetener, saccharin, was discovered in 1879 when Constantin Fahlberg, a Johns Hopkins University scientist working on coal-tar derivatives, noticed a substance on his hands and arms that tasted sweet. No one knows why Fahlberg decided to lick an unknown substance off his body…