PunkLawyer · @punklawyer
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I was, according to Paco Calvo, guilty of “plant blindness.” Calvo, who runs the Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain where he studies , says that to be 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.

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#minimalintelligence #plantbehavior #plantblind

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anemoi · @anemoi
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"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.

nautil.us/what-plants-are-sayi

#plantblind

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