Plant sentience? Between romanticism and denial: Science

Animal Sentience, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 8(33)

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2023

A growing number of non-human animal species are being seriously considered as candidates for sentience, but plants either forgotten or explicitly excluded from these debates. In our view, this is based on the belief that plant behavior hardwired and inflexible an underestimation role electrophysiology. We weigh such assumptions against evidence to suggest it time take hypothesis plants, too, might be sentient. hope target article will serve invitation investigate sentience in with same rigor animals.

Язык: Английский

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Plants are intelligent, here’s how

Annals of Botany, Год журнала: 2019, Номер 125(1), С. 11 - 28

Опубликована: Сен. 26, 2019

The drive to survive is a biological universal. Intelligent behaviour usually recognized when individual organisms including plants, in the face of fiercely competitive or adverse, real-world circumstances, change their improve probability survival.This article explains potential relationship intelligence adaptability and emphasizes need recognize variation showing it be goal directed thus being purposeful. single cells microbes frequently reported. Individual might underpinned by novel learning mechanism, described here detail. requirements for circumstances are outlined, organic selection indicated together with niche construction as good example intentional that should survival. Adaptability important crop development but term may complex incorporating numerous behavioural traits some which indicated.There real benefit regarding plants intelligent both from fundamental issue understanding plant life also providing direction future research breeding.

Язык: Английский

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Plants Neither Possess nor Require Consciousness

Trends in Plant Science, Год журнала: 2019, Номер 24(8), С. 677 - 687

Опубликована: Июль 3, 2019

Язык: Английский

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Implicit guidance of attention: The priority state space framework

Cortex, Год журнала: 2017, Номер 102, С. 121 - 138

Опубликована: Авг. 10, 2017

Язык: Английский

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Predicting green: really radical (plant) predictive processing

Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Год журнала: 2017, Номер 14(131), С. 20170096 - 20170096

Опубликована: Июнь 1, 2017

In this article we account for the way plants respond to salient features of their environment under free-energy principle biological systems. Biological self-organization amounts minimization surprise over time. We posit that any self-organizing system must embody a generative model whose predictions ensure (expected) free energy is minimized through action. Plants in fast, and yet coordinated manner, environmental contingencies. They pro-actively sample local elicit information with an adaptive value. Our main thesis plant behaviour takes place by process (active inference) predicts sources sensory stimulation. This principle, argue, endows form perception underwrites purposeful, anticipatory behaviour. The aim assess prospects radical predictive processing story would follow naturally from systems; approach may ultimately bear upon our understanding life cognition more broadly.

Язык: Английский

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Cognition in some surprising places

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 564, С. 150 - 157

Опубликована: Сен. 17, 2020

Язык: Английский

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Plant behaviour: an evolutionary response to the environment?

Plant Biology, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 22(6), С. 961 - 970

Опубликована: Июнь 19, 2020

Plants are not just passive living beings that exist in nature. They complex and highly adaptable species react sensitively to environmental forces/stimuli with movement, morphological changes through the communication via volatile molecules. In a way, plants mimic some traits of animal human behaviour; they compete for limited resources by gaining more area sunlight spread their roots underground. Furthermore, order survive thrive, evolve 'learn' control various stress factors increase yield flowering, fertilization germination processes. The concept associating behaviour, such as intelligence, is still debatable topic among researchers worldwide. Recent studies have shown able discriminate between positive negative experiences from them. Some botanists interpreted these behavioural data form primitive cognitive Others evaluated responses biological automatisms determined adaptation environment absence intelligence. This review aims explore adaptive aspects plant distributed different ecosystems emphasizing complexity survival instincts.

Язык: Английский

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Life, death, and self: Fundamental questions of primitive cognition viewed through the lens of body plasticity and synthetic organisms

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 564, С. 114 - 133

Опубликована: Ноя. 6, 2020

Язык: Английский

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Learning in single cell organisms

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 564, С. 92 - 102

Опубликована: Фев. 23, 2021

Язык: Английский

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Consciousness and cognition in plants

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 13(2)

Опубликована: Сен. 23, 2021

Unlike animal behavior, behavior in plants is traditionally assumed to be completely determined either genetically or environmentally. Under this assumption, are usually considered noncognitive organisms. This view nonetheless clashes with a growing body of empirical research that shows many sophisticated cognitive capabilities exclusive animals exhibited by too. Yet, if can cognitive, even minimal sense, they also conscious? Some authors defend the quest for plant consciousness worth pursuing, under premise sentience play role facilitating plant's behavior. The goal article not provide positive argument cognition and consciousness, but invite constructive, empirically informed debate about it. After reviewing literature concerning cognition, we introduce reader emerging field neurobiology. Research on electrical chemical signaling help shed light into biological bases sentience. To conclude, shall present series approaches scientifically investigate consciousness. In sum, consider idea boils down some form adaptation, should exclude priori possibility have evolved their own phenomenal experience world. categorized under: Cognitive Biology > Evolutionary Roots Cognition Philosophy Consciousness Neuroscience Cognition.

Язык: Английский

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