Phytopsyche: The Emerging Science and Cultures of Plant Intelligence

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Plant Intelligence

scholarly journals The foundations of plant intelligence

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 20160098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Trewavas
Keyword(s):  
Single Cells ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Neural Systems ◽  
Plant Interactions ◽  
Distributed Resources ◽  
Environmental Signals ◽  
Plant Intelligence ◽  
Sense And Respond ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Plant Behaviour

Intelligence is defined for wild plants and its role in fitness identified. Intelligent behaviour exhibited by single cells and systems similarity between the interactome and connectome indicates neural systems are not necessary for intelligent capabilities. Plants sense and respond to many environmental signals that are assessed to competitively optimize acquisition of patchily distributed resources. Situations of choice engender motivational states in goal-directed plant behaviour; consequent intelligent decisions enable efficient gain of energy over expenditure. Comparison of swarm intelligence and plant behaviour indicates the origins of plant intelligence lie in complex communication and is exemplified by cambial control of branch function. Error correction in behaviours indicates both awareness and intention as does the ability to count to five. Volatile organic compounds are used as signals in numerous plant interactions. Being complex in composition and often species and individual specific, they may represent the plant language and account for self and alien recognition between individual plants. Game theory has been used to understand competitive and cooperative interactions between plants and microbes. Some unexpected cooperative behaviour between individuals and potential aliens has emerged. Behaviour profiting from experience, another simple definition of intelligence, requires both learning and memory and is indicated in the priming of herbivory, disease and abiotic stresses.

scholarly journals Plant intelligence and attention

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. e23902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Marder
Keyword(s):  
Plant Intelligence

Plant intelligence

2005 ◽  
Vol 92 (9) ◽  
pp. 401-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Trewavas
Keyword(s):  
Plant Intelligence

scholarly journals The Hearing Test: Evidence of a Vegetal Entity

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 85-89
Author(s):  
Laura Beloff
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Air Bubbles ◽  
Plant Intelligence ◽  
Hearing Test ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Extended Reflection ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

The author's artistic experiment The Hearing Test focuses on detection of high frequency clicking sounds that are emitted by the tips of plants' roots. Scientists have claimed that plants' roots produce high frequency clicks between 20 and 300 kHz by bursting air bubbles. But while the phenomenon has been described, its cause remains unexplained. This lack of knowledge opens up possibilities for multiple interpretations and invites experimental approaches as well as speculation concerning plant intelligence, the role of species-specific hearing and sound as evidence. The article is an extended reflection on the experiment.

scholarly journals Plant Intelligence: an Alternative Point of View

2004 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. FIRN
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Plant Intelligence

scholarly journals Plant intelligence

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 394-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima Cvrčková ◽  
Helena Lipavská ◽  
Viktor Žárský
Keyword(s):  
Plant Intelligence

Does water have agency? Does it need to?

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon L. Scarborough
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
Organic World ◽  
The World ◽  
Plant Intelligence

Michael Pollan recently published an essay in the New Yorker (December 2013) introducing the notion of ‘plant intelligence’ and how plants have evolved by virtue of their lack of mobility to cultivate and attract the resources they require. Although not using the humanistic language identified with ‘agency’, a widely used term most frequently associated with human motivation, action and accomplishment, Pollan lends his implicit support for the communicative ‘behaviours’ of plants and their own brand of agency in effecting change in the world. Veronica Strang champions this view for the role of the non-human organic world, but moves a step or two further in suggesting that the inorganic has its own sense of agency. And though she and those phenomenologists whom she cites attribute agency to all things, it is difficult for some of us to entirely accept such a premise.

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