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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 Power of Mental Effort

Darwin was able to put all his mental effort into seeing plants with different eye. He was only able to do so by, in a sense, if you think about a ginger, by slowing himself down. So he was able to slow himself down to the time scale in which plant behavior unfolds. And that's what he was a master at.

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