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EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. "A plant has a modular design, so it can lose up to ninety per cent of its body without being killed...There’s nothing like that in the animal world.” https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

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WESTERN CULTURAL PARADIGMS about plants, stemming back to Aristotle, have also significantly contributed to our relegating plants to the back of the bus. For over 2,000 years, our view of the herbivory we live amongst has been colored by these perceptions. View in LinkedIn

BIG QUESTION. "Although the ability to regenerate whole plants from cells, tissues, or organs cultured in vitro has been long known, the question of how a somatic cell can differentiate into a whole plant has been considered as one of the big questions facing science over the next quarter-century." https://lnkd.in/dPRyg6w View in LinkedIn

DISTRIBUTED. "Plants distribute all along the body the functions that in animals are concentrated in single organs. Whereas in animals almost the only cells producing electrical signals are in the brain, the plant is a kind of distributed brain in which almost every cell is able to produce them." https://lnkd.in/d848EWa View in LinkedIn

A START. "Stenhouse (1974) examined the evolution of intelligence in animals and described intelligence as ‘Adaptively variable behaviour within the lifetime of the individual’. The more intelligent the organism, the greater the degree of individual adaptively variable behaviour. Because this definition was used to describe intelligence in organisms other than humans, it is a definition useful for investigating the question in plants." https://lnkd.in/dw5Akfn View in LinkedIn

CHALLENGING IDEAS like plants, having diffuse computing capabilities that can be vegetatively reproduced from a cutting, having different and slow response time frames, having no ability to run mazes or undergo traditional behavioral tests, and being "open connected systems", all contribute to our profound and genuine difficulty of conceptualizing these strange creatures. View in LinkedIn