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Plant Memories, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Plant Intelligence

Plants have a complex molecular vocabulary to signal, distress, deter or poison enemies and recruit animals to perform various services for a soi think he puts it quite well there. If a plant does indeed contain something that could legitimately be considered intelligence, it would need a different kind of substrait to contain that intelligence than than the human brain. The next study i want to talk about looked at whether you could find evidence of classical conditioning in plants. Classical conditioning is one of the big concepts in behavior psychology. It is a type of unconscious learning, usually observed in animals, in which you repeatedly pair a salient stimulus with a neutral stimulus.

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