Pixelated Semantics

Intelligent plants

The CS Monitor has an absolutely fascinating article (and I say that without hyperbole) which reports on the "the evolving paradigm of 'plant intelligence'" and details how "extraordinary new findings on how plants investigate and respond to their environments are part of a sprouting debate over the nature of intelligence itself". A university biologist is reported as saying "if intelligence is the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, then, absolutely, plants are intelligent", though some dispute that self-awareness, as a key criteria in some views of intelligence, is not present. The premises addressed in this article will definitely challenge one's world-view, positively. For instance, the idea that "not only can plants communicate with each other and with insects by coded gas exhalations, scientists say now, [plants] can perform Euclidean geometry calculations through cellular computations".

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