epic. of note reading this is that it still needs a lot of chemical treatment and alterations to make this work so its not like. a biodegradable device or anything but what i do think is interesting is the overlapping needs here tree needs lots of tubes with many outlets so it can shut off an outlet if one gets damaged or reroute water around something if a tube gets blocked humans need many tubes with outlets because shutting lots of them on and off in patterns makes a computer tree leaf and human shaking hands and whatnot does this mean that a trees xylem is a computer. no but it would be epic if it did