BS 206: Paco Calvo explores Plant Intelligence

This month we have an intriguing interview with Dr. Paco Calvo
from the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory at the University of
Mercia in Spain. We talk with him about his new book Planta
Sapiens: The New Science of Intelligence.


We discuss the scientific evidence for plant intelligence while
acknowledging that intelligence and consciousness are not the
same. It is interesting to think of plants as demonstrating
embodied cognition in contrast to the "intelligence" demonstrated
by computer software. We also consider the pioneering work of
Charles Darwin, who actually studied plant behavior before the
invention of time lapse photography.


Links and References:


Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
 by Paco Calvo

Paco Calvo (University of Mercia, Spain)



Gagliano, M., Vyazovskiy, V. V., Borbély, A. A., Grimonprez,
M., & Depczynski, M. (2016). Learning by
Association in Plants. Scientific reports, 6, 38427.
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep38427


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