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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 Importance of Offline Cognition

Ginger: Would you talk about how plants follow the sun or at least some plants because you talked about in the book how they actually know where the sun is even when it's cloudy and I wasn't clear on whether that's every plant or just certain ones but still it's another example of anticipatory behavior. Ginger: Let me say one of my dearest examples because it's the example that literally took me off philosophy into plant science or into the couple of science of plants. Remember I told you I was trained at the beginning as a straight philosopher of science. Now at that time in the 90s when I was working on my PhD I was obsessed with this idea of humans trying to

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