Biological complexity: plants intelligent 'responses' (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, December 01, 2018, 14:34 (1971 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: "Plants show the extent to which communication is possible without any of the qualities we associate with individual intelligence, provided the entity seeks to thrive and grow."

DAVID: dhw and I will commence to go back and forth whether this is automatic responses to stimuli or the plants can think. My view, if plants can't move to avoid problems, they are programmed to respond appropriately for self-protection, and to help other plants. This is not altruism in the Darwinian sense.

Thank you for this amazing article. Clearly the authors, like you, recognize all the signs of a directing intelligence but refuse to believe them. But we needn’t go over it all again. As you said under “Bacterial immunity”: “That directive process can also be automatic or shown to be an independent control. At some point as layers are plied off the answer will appear.