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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

TREE KIN. "The mother trees are providing a favourable environment for the regeneration of their own kin, their own genes. That is one example of forests behaving like a family." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-underestimated-power-of-plants/7227008 View in LinkedIn

TREE KIN RECOGNITION. "We know that big old trees—we call them mother trees—will communicate with seedlings that are their kin or their kids and make room for those kids compared to seedlings that are strangers, and they are doing this through their mycorrhizal networks." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-underestimated-power-of-plants/7227008 View in LinkedIn

FAMOUS DODDER. "Plants intelligently optimise energy gain whilst minimising resource outlay. The clearest example of predictive modeling behavior can be found in a parasitical non-photosynthetic plant, Dodder. However numerous decisions are made on first contact. Many suitable hosts are rejected within a few hours of the first touch contact, indicating choice. Dodder does not parasitize itself indicating self-recognition." Is it following chemical cues? http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-005-0014-9 View in LinkedIn