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concept:intelligence-in-plantsIntelligence in Plants
Contested domain of basal cognition; highlights insufficient criteria for assessing sentience across diverse substrates.
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- Basal CognitioncitesAn interdisciplinary research framework that reconceptualizes intelligence as observer-relative problem-solving competencies existing on a continuum from simple to highly complex, extending cognition beyond neural systems to pre-neural and non-neural substrates including microbial control loops, plants, tissues, and cellular collectives. It grounds the study of evolutionary and developmental origins of cognitive and behavioral capacities by linking information processing at the chemical and cellular level to classical cognition, and provides philosophical foundations for understanding agency and goal-directedness in systems without nervous systems.
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- The commentary paper by Michael Levin.
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- Observer-relative competency to identify and solve problems; defined as capacity, not manifest action, across all substrates.
- Secondary question the authors suggest their framework helps address by providing richer conceptual tools
- Possibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.
- Intelligence typically associated with a single organism and its nervous system; argued here to also be a product of collective composition.
- William James definition of intelligence; foundational to paper's framing of competency and problem-solving as core invariants.
- The functional ability to solve problems in various spaces, not tied to specific implementations.
- Intelligences distinct from human minds, including AI and artificial life agents.