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MODULAR PLANT SWARMS. "Mancuso’s hypothesis is that something similar is at work in plants, with their thousands of root tips playing the role of the individual birds—gathering and assessing data from the environment and responding in local but coördinated ways that benefit the entire organism." https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

SWARM THINKING. "In a flock, each bird has only to follow a few simple rules, such as maintaining a prescribed distance from its neighbor, yet the collective effect of a great many birds executing a simple algorithm is a complex and supremely well-coördinated behavior." https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

"PLANT INTELLIGENCE has become, at best, practically synonymous with Darwinian fitness (“adaptively variable behavior” or “ability of an individual to perform in its environment”); at worst, its defense resorts to collecting other incidents of metaphoric use of the word “intelligence” (such as bacterial, immune, species, artificial, plant sensu factory etc., intelligence), or to general arguments about intrinsic value of metaphors in science." https://lnkd.in/dfsCv77 View in LinkedIn

SPARKING INTEREST. "The concept of plant intelligence, as proposed by Anthony Trewavas, has raised considerable discussion." https://lnkd.in/dfsCv77 View in LinkedIn

PLANT SWARM INTELLIGENCE. "In place of a brain, “what I am looking for is a distributed sort of intelligence, as we see in the swarming of birds.” (Mancuso). https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

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INTELLIGENCE. "I define it very simply...Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.” (Mancuso). https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENCE AS SMART ADAPTATION. "He defined “intelligent behavior” as “the ability to adapt to changing circumstances” and noted that it “must always be measured relative to a particular environment.” https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

BEHAVIORAL BASIS. "We do not know what constitutes intelligence, only what we can observe and judge as intelligent behavior.” https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn