Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence

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Sure, I think being lazy and not watering your houseplants until they die is unethical, but how would a farmer treat his crops differently when harvesting? Difficult to teach an old dogsbane new tricks, perhaps, but to my mind, the burden of proof still falls to those who marry plant to neurobiology.

Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo review - The Guardian

The result of his confinement with the cucumbers was a 118-page monograph on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants.In the course of his book, Calvo describes many experiments that reveal plants’ remarkable range, including the way they communicate with others nearby using “chemical talk”, a language encoded in about 1,700 volatile organic compounds. They are not merely passive organisms taking life as it comes, while doing photosynthesis,” readers are told. It’s nearly impossible for humans to imagine living this way, and it’s similarly difficult for humans to imagine what it must be like to live as a plant. An exhaustive investigation of the case of Gef, a “talking mongoose” or “man-weasel,” who appeared to a family living on the Isle of Man. Planta Sapiens” nos fuerza, así, a considerar cómo las prioridades humanas podrían prejuzgar nuestra concepción de las plantas.

Book Review: ‘Planta Sapiens,’ by Paco Calvo - The New York Times

Those algorithms were chosen because they produced a plant that was likely to survive in a certain environment. Their roots can alter their direction of growth by turning horizontal or even upward to avoid a barrier, or to seek moisture. The author gives some very credible evidence for plant consciousness and also addresses his critics’ viewpoints and their attempts to discredit him.An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence". Durante la última década ha dado numerosas conferencias por todo el mundo sobre la inteligencia vegetal a públicos académicos y no académicos. I have read many books about trees and funghi that have really captured my imagination to the point where I struggled to put them down but sadly this was quite the opposite as I sometimes had to force myself to continue. A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.

Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence - Goodreads

Some flowers turn towards the sun as it tracks across the sky, and some plants close their leaves when touched, but traits like these are generally assumed to be automatic reflexes, no different to the way your leg jerks out when you get tapped on the knee. Innovative new tools might allow us to actually see them do these things – from electrophysiological recordings to MRI and PET scans.Instead of blithely thinking that we’re somehow superior to – and separate from – the animals and plants around us, we might start to appreciate that we’re deeply and irrevocably connected to these fragile ecosystems. With this erasure, we lose the intelligence—however we choose to speak of it—brought to us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution.