“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.”
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