I was, according to Paco Calvo, guilty of “plant blindness.” Calvo, who runs the #MinimalIntelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain where he studies #plantbehavior, says that to be #plantblind is to fail to see plants for what they really are: cognitive organisms endowed with memories, perceptions, and feelings, capable of learning from the past and anticipating the future, able to sense and experience the world.
#minimalintelligence #plantbehavior #plantblind
"Plants can distinguish self from non-self, stranger from kin...
To “see,” according to ecological psychology, is not to form a picture of the world in your head. .... It’s not the brain that sees, but the whole animate body. The result of “seeing” is never a final image for an internal mind to contemplate in its secret lair, but an adaptive, ongoing engagement with the world..."
a very intriguing read.