Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence

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Planta sapiens ofrece una perspectiva creativa y audaz sobre la biología vegetal y la ciencia cognitiva. Partiendo de experimentos realizados con las tecnologías más avanzadas, este ensayo apasionante nos invita a pensar el mundo natural de una manera radicalmente distinta. I am sad to say that this book just wasn't for me. I am a huge nature lover of both animals and plants and so love to read nature books but unfortunately I found this book to be too dense and without enough interesting facts to keep me really involved. In 2030 biotech researcher Tereza embarks on an expedition across the Czech Republic and the authoritarian U.S. to recover the remains of her long-estranged mother, Adéla, after their reunion is cut short by Adéla's sudden death. Told from the mother's perspective from beyond the grave, the novel traces the way nativism spreads and how morally dubious technologies such as surveillance and immortality science thrive under a fascist, one-party-rule government. Author Jaroslav Kalfařturns an ambitious premise (a person whose body has expired but whose consciousness lives on) into a moving, frightening story about the strength of family bonds. — Michael Welch

The professor who believes plants can remember, learn and

Are corals smart? Possibly smarter than you might expect for minute, static creatures. They can switch between their diets of sunlight and hunting for prey with tiny tentacles, and they go to war with one another over territory. But their swimming larval stage is their least self-possessed phase.18 In corals, then, motility does not seem to denote intelligence. It is when corals are sedentary that they engage in those activities, which would seem to contradrict Patricia Churchland’s argument that [i]f you root yourself in the ground, you can afford to be stupid. But if you move, you must have mechanisms for moving, and mechanisms to ensure that the movement is not utterly arbitrary and independent of what is going on outside. About the Author: Paco Calvo is a professor of the philosophy of science and principal investigator at the Universidad de Murcia's Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINTLab) in Spain.The debate is as much philosophical as scientific, fuelled by the meanings of words. It questions not only whether intelligence and awareness require a brain, but also what intelligence and awareness are. However, more is at stake than mere semantics. The penultimate chapter is incendiary. “Plant Liberation” rebuffs Peter Singer’s seminal book Animal Liberation, taking issue with its exclusion of plants from feeling pain. “Plants show actively avoidant behaviour,’ says Calvo, “and pain should be no less useful in the evolutionary history of rooted organisms than for those who can run away from it.” I endeavour to be ethical, but am not persuaded.

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Planta Sapiens] takes readers on a journey into a seemingly alien world [...] Read this fascinating book and your view of nature will never be the same again" That said, I liked how the author tried to present his case, without having a large body of evidence of support. Paco Calvo believes in plant intelligence and is convinced that science will reveal it – in time. I love this conviction, as the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!

Decades of research document plants’ impressive abilities: they communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that although plants may not have brains, their internal workings reveal a system not unlike the neuronal networks running through our own bodies. They can learn and remember, possessing an intelligence that allows them to behave in flexible, forward-looking, and goal-directed ways.