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ADJUSTED TIME. "Apart from the fact that the major form of expression of animal intelligence is movement rather than growth and development, as defined here for plants, I find there is little to distinguish between the two groups of organisms once adjustments are made for the time differences." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

TIME SCALES. "A major difficulty in studying any plant behaviour is that time scales differ from those in animals. Whereas human beings operate in seconds, plants usually operate in weeks and months." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

"INTELLIGENCE is not a term commonly used when plants are discussed. However, I believe that this is an omission based not on a true assessment of the ability of plants to compute complex aspects of their environment, but solely a reflection of a sessile lifestyle." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

MAZES AND MOTION. "However, in animal terms, behaviour is equated with movement, and since plants exhibit little if any form of movement, plant intelligence on that basis does not exist." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

OPEN CONNECTED SYSTEM. "The plant does not organize its milieu; it is comprised of a series of internal communicative networks (e.g., biochemical and hormonal channels, or synaptic cell-cell communication) and external communication pathways that connect it to its environment. It is, thus, an open system, coupled with its environment." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn