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“PLANT BIO-ATTENTION is what we may call “hyper-attention,” as every vertical shoot, leaf and rootlet monitors the minutest environmental variations proximate to it. Far from a redundancy, the plant’s non-totalized intelligence is explicable, in cognitive terms, as a paralleling processing model, with every organ of intentionality playing the role of a parallel processor." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn

NO DISTRACTION. "The dispersion of intentionality in plants does not signify a permanent state of distraction due to their inability to achieve anything like lasting concentration." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn

DISPERSED INTENTIONALITY. ""The world of higher plants furnishes a perfect image of dispersed intentionality in modular development or iterative growth: adaptively variable growth is uneven and involves complex branching patterns that effectively respond to sub-optimal niche conditions in order to recover the optimal niche for a given plant. Each shoot and part of root pursues its own trajectory of intentionality, reflecting the uneven distribution of resources to which it strives and, most often, contributing to the asymmetry of the whole." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn

INTENTIONALITY. "Scattered trajectories of intentionality are also characteristic of plant life. Colonies of lower plants feature social intelligence, akin to that of a beehive or an anthill." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn

INJURY SIGNALS. "There's other experiments where we've shown if we injure that mother tree experimentally that she will also send defence signals out to other seedlings around her." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-underestimated-power-of-plants/7227008 View in LinkedIn

JUGGLING EFFICIENCY. "Future shoot formation and light foraging indicate intelligent behavior. The morphology of many plants is constructed so as to minimize self shading. Leaves possess two light sensitive organs (the petiole and the pulvinus) that control the direction of the leaf lamina, ensuring it is intelligently placed at 90° to the prevailing polarity of incident sunlight thus capturing maximum energy." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-005-0014-9 View in LinkedIn