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Limestone pavements take on a shine after centuries of wear. View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-08-14 04:36:11
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
linkedin post 2020-08-12 04:06:11
NEW PARADIGM RESISTANCE. "When it is observed that intelligence is not concentrated in a single organ but is a property of the entire living being and, moreover, that intelligent behavior cannot be divorced from the context that elicits it, several longstanding Western biases are disrupted." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-08-14 04:33:45
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
linkedin post 2020-08-12 04:04:44
CONTRARIAN VIEW. "It is not enough to broaden the general definition of intelligence, in an attempt to account for the phenotypic plasticity of non-animal organisms, or to draw analogies between animal and plant behaviors." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-08-14 04:32:05
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
linkedin post 2020-08-12 04:01:59
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
linkedin post 2020-08-14 04:29:16
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
linkedin post 2020-08-14 04:27:30
NEW LANGUAGE. "If new words are needed to describe how plants function, maybe we should invent new ones rather than trying to redefine existing ones." Curiously, nobody has invented these new plant-centric concepts and words. They remain clumsily adapted. This is one of the key issues of grasping a sense of a creature like a plant. http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/4/345.full View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-08-15 04:27:35
THE HUMAN NOSE. “In humans, the mammalian olfactory chambers are transformed into olfactory clefts and lateral masses of the ethmoid, and the transverse lamina separating the olfactory and respiratory noses has disappeared.” http://www.wjgnet.com/esps/DownLoadFile.aspx?Type=Digital&SubType=2&DOI=10.5319%2Fwjo.v6.i2.33&FilePath=Pub%5C10.5319%5Cv6%5Ci2%5CWJO-6-33.doc View in LinkedIn