Learning from plants
13 mins | Mar 29, 2020

How to confront our biases when it comes to plant intelligence. "Intelligence, however, is more than consciousness; it is also the ability to acquire and apply knowledge, to learn. Marder says that at least some plants can learn, citing a 1999 Dutch study in which lima bean plants were observed summoning insects as allies against organisms harmful to the plants." Amy Wright, writing in The Hedgehog Review, explores.

From The Hedgehog Review