Brilliant Green: The Surprising History And Science Of Plant Intelligence

Are Plants Intelligent? New Book Says Yes

A new book, Brilliant Green, argues that not only are plants intelligent and sentient, but that we should consider their rights, especially in the midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction

Jeremy Hance | August 4, 2015



[Blogger's note: Plant Neurobiology describes a newly named, but also old and fascinating field in plant biology addressing the physiological basis of adaptive behavior in plants. Perhaps this field could be called "Sensory Biology in Plants" or something similar. However, these names don't quite cover topics like plant cytology and anatomy, adaptive plant behavior, signaling and communication in symbiosis and pathogenesis, or newly emerging topics like for instance plant immunity, plant memory and learning, plant-plant communication, as well as plant intelligence. Source: http://www.plantbehavior.org/neuro.html]

Plants are intelligent. Plants deserve rights. Plants are like the Internet – or more accurately the Internet is like plants. To most of us these statements may sound, at best, insupportable or, at worst, crazy. But a new book, Brilliant Green: the Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence, by plant neurobiologist (yes, plant neurobiologist), Stefano Mancuso and journalist, Alessandra Viola, makes a compelling and fascinating case not only for plant sentience and smarts, but also plant rights.

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Green-Surprising-History-Intelligence/dp/1610916034/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1449672467&sr=1-1

<more at http://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/aug/04/plants-intelligent-sentient-book-brilliant-green-internet; related links: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2012/ee_2.html (Sensors Enable Plants to Text Message Farmers. 2012) and http://jonlieffmd.com/blog/plant-intelligence-primer-update-2015 (Plant Intelligence Primer and Update 2015. January 4, 2015)>