BS 206: Paco Calvo explores Plant Intelligence
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This month we have an intriguing interview with Dr. Paco Calvo from the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Mercia in Spain. We talk with him about his new book Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Intelligence.
We discuss the scientific evidence for plant intelligence while acknowledging that intelligence and consciousness are not the same. It is interesting to think of plants as demonstrating embodied cognition in contrast to the "intelligence" demonstrated by computer software. We also consider the pioneering work of Charles Darwin, who actually studied plant behavior before the invention of time lapse photography.
Links and References:
- Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo
- Paco Calvo (University of Mercia, Spain)
- Gagliano, M., Vyazovskiy, V. V., Borbély, A. A., Grimonprez, M., & Depczynski, M. (2016). Learning by Association in Plants. Scientific reports, 6, 38427. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep38427
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| 0:59.9 | Today we will be talking with Paco Cava, author of the fascinating new book, Plantasapians, |
| 1:07.2 | the new science of plant intelligence. |
| 1:10.3 | Dr. Calvo is a professor of the philosophy of science and principal investigator at the |
| 1:16.0 | minimal intelligence lab at the University of Mercia in Spain. |
| 1:22.3 | Your gut response to the expression plant intelligence might be, |
| 1:28.0 | say what? Plants can't be intelligent. They don't even have neurons. |
| 1:33.3 | One of the earliest episodes of brain science |
| 1:36.9 | was a discussion of the book on intelligence |
| 1:40.0 | by Jeff Hawkins, who subsequently appeared on the show several times. |
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