can people our shape not eat material , why would we not, the line between conscious matter that is offended becoming transmuted (eaten) and conscious matter that is not offended is a topic we have not got to yet

In February 1966, he attached polygraph electrodes to a Dracaena cane plant, to measure at first the time taken for water to reach the leaves. The electrodes are used to measure galvanic skin response and the plant showed readings which resembled that of a human. This made Backster try different scenarios, and claimed that the readings went off the chart when he burnt the leaf, because he claimed that the plant registered a stress response to his thoughts of harming it. He conducted another similar experiment where he observed a plant's response to the death of a brine shrimp in another room; his results convinced him that plants demonstrated telepathic awareness. He argued that plants perceived human intentions, and as he began to investigate further, he also reported finding that other human thoughts and emotions caused reactions in plants, that could be recorded by a polygraph instrument. He termed the plants' sensitivity to thoughts "primary perception", and published his findings from the experiments in the International Journal of Parapsychology in 1968. After 1973, he further experimented on yoghurt bacteria, eggs and human sperm and he claimed his results showed "primary perception" could be measured in all living things.