Intelligence in Plants

[Arpit Verma]

Plants are modular organisms, capable of learning, remembering, and making decisions. In their own pace of life, plants take the most of their environment to make intelligent choices. For plants, lacking a brain is a brilliant survival strategy, because herbivores could eat it at any moment. If they do not have a brain, where is their intelligence?

 

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Edited April 25, 2016 by Phi for All
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[cladking]

Once you realize that "intelligence" is not only unmeasurable but essentially nonexistent it shouldn't be too difficult to locate their "consciousness". Plants must communicate between their various parts and most, if not all, communicate with others of their species and between species.

 

Find their consciousness and you've found their "intelligence".

 

Where are you looking?

I'd guess that to the limited degree they have consciousness they would experience it at the base of the "trunk".

[BiotechFusion]

Once you realize that "intelligence" is not only unmeasurable

It's not exactly immeasurable there's plenty of models that have millions of variables and differentials that work with rates of information processing, like for instance computational theory of the mind. There is however a group of scientists, small but not irrelevant who claim a mind is non-local.

Another thing to keep in mind (no pun intended) is that pretty much every animal has some form of it, there's patterns of thought and behavior that we see across thousands of different species and all the different kingdoms of animals, so clearly there's some kind of logical pattern to it.

As for intelligence in plants, on one hand they've been around for even longer than animals, they've had more time to evolve, we really don't know anything about how they perceive the universe and they respond to stimuli and each other in different ways, and even the seemingly least intelligent animals have a lot of capacity for reacting and feeling, even tiny bugs seem capable of exhibiting emotions. But on the other hand, fish have been around for hundreds of millions of years too and they don't seem like geniuses.

Edited April 30, 2016 by BiotechFusion

[ajb]

Plants are modular organisms, capable of learning, remembering, and making decisions.

I do not think this is quite true. It is true that plants can respond to changes in their environment and the ways in which they can do this can be suprising. Plants do not have a nervous system, though they are capable of sending electric messages from say one leaf to another. None of this means that they can 'think' in any sense similar to advanced animal life.

 

You have to be careful taking terms from the study of amimals and simply applying it to plants.

[zakariyadoar]

plants are intelligent in design. They reproduce what we need to live and are a crucial part of human life.

[ajb]

plants are intelligent in design. They reproduce what we need to live and are a crucial part of human life.

That sounds a very loaded statement... it is true that plants are vital to the animals on Earth. But your 'intelligent in design' suggests something designed them.

 

Which is really off topic.

Edited May 20, 2016 by ajb