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BS 206: Paco Calvo explores Plant Intelligence

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Evolution of Plant Intelligence

The evidence in favor of plant intelligence is strong but this should not be surprising in light of the recent events in computer science. Even though i appreciate my smartphone i don't think it's conscious plants have one thing that artificial intelligence and computers lack they are embodied and embedded in the environment. The question is do they have subjective awareness scientists who have expanded probable consciousness to all vertebrates and some invertebrates including octopi and arthropods based their expansion on its capabilities primary sensory consciousness is presumed to require some sort of mapping of the external.

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