Are plants cognitive? A reply to Adams

Segundo-Ortin, Miguel; Calvo, Paco

doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2018.12.001

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“…It is not just homeostatic, but allostatic, which means that it achieves homeostasis using agency and anticipation [46]. Every organism is cognitive and adaptive [45,[47][48][49][50], even bacteria and plants [51][52][53][54]. Cognition, as used in this series, does not necessarily imply a central nervous system.…”

Section: Living Organismsmentioning

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Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part I: Worldview

Boik

2020

Sustainability

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Humanity faces serious social and environmental problems, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Increasingly, scientists, global policy experts, and the general public conclude that incremental approaches to reduce risk are insufficient and transformative change is needed across all sectors of society. However, the meaning of transformation is still unsettled in the literature, as is the proper role of science in fostering it. This paper is the first in a three-part series that adds to the discussion by proposing a novel science-driven research-and-development program aimed at societal transformation. More than a proposal, it offers a perspective and conceptual framework from which societal transformation might be approached. As part of this, it advances a formal mechanics with which to model and understand self-organizing societies of individuals. While acknowledging the necessity of reform to existing societal systems (e.g., governance, economic, and financial systems), the focus of the series is on transformation understood as systems change or systems migration—the de novo development of and migration to new societal systems. The series provides definitions, aims, reasoning, worldview, and a theory of change, and discusses fitness metrics and design principles for new systems. This first paper proposes a worldview, built using ideas from evolutionary biology, complex systems science, cognitive sciences, and information theory, which is intended to serve as the foundation for the R&D program. Subsequent papers in the series build on the worldview to address fitness metrics, system design, and other topics.

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Section: Living Organismsmentioning

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Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part I: Worldview

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2020

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“…Interestingly, Pamela Lyon (2017) has recently shown that if we view cognition as the “capacity to flexibly generate complex behavior” (p. 454) and look at the most recent research available on bacterial behaviors, then it shows that “different types of signaling systems clearly enable different degrees of response flexibility and behavioral complexity” (Lyon, 2017) to cope with a more complex environment. Similar positions have been defended regarding plants (Calvo, 2016; Segundo-Ortin & Calvo, 2019).…”

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“…Interest in these kinds of questions, a growing literature on organisms such as bacteria, plants, and even slime molds (see Döbereiner & Nakagaki, in press; Segundo-Ortin & Calvo, 2019), and current debates about the best framework for understanding cognition have led to a convergence of interest on the level of complexity at which cognition arises. Take, for instance, the autopoietic approach, which posits cognition as continuous with the biodynamics of life itself (Varela, 1979; Varela et al, 1991).…”

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Approaching minimal cognition: introduction to the special issue

2019

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This special issue highlights the growing interdisciplinary interest in minimal cognition, bringing together a number of philosophers and scientists interested in investigating where, how, and why cognition arises. In what follows, we introduce the topic of minimal cognition by giving a brief look at debates and discussions about the lower bounds of cognition, minimally cognitive behaviors, and the possibility of life-mind continuity. Afterwards, we offer a short summary of each of the contributions to this issue. In the spirit of the Minimal Cognition conferences at the University of Wollongong at which the contributors participated, we hope this special issue will enrich the current state of minimal cognition research by putting a number of different disciplines and approaches into conversation.

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“…It is not just homeostatic, but allostatic, which means that it achieves homeostasis using agency and anticipation [47]. Every organism is cognitive and adaptive [46,[48][49][50][51], even bacteria and plants [52][53][54][55]. Cognition, as used in this series, does not necessarily imply a central nervous system.…”

Section: Living Organismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part I: Worldview

Boik¹

2020

Preprint

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Humanity faces serious social and environmental problems, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Risks are increasing and conditions deteriorating. Increasingly, scientists, global policy experts, and the general public conclude that incremental approaches are insufficient and transformative change is needed across all sectors of society. However, the meaning of transformation is still unsettled in the literature, as is the proper role of science in fostering it. This paper is the first in a three-part series that adds to the discussion by proposing a novel science-driven research-and-development program aimed at societal transformation. More than a proposal, it offers a perspective and conceptual framework from which societal transformation might be approached and understood. While acknowledging the necessity of reform to existing societal systems (e.g., governance, economic, and financial systems), the focus of the series is on transformation understood as systems change or systems migration—the de novo development of and migration to new societal systems. The series provides definitions, aims, reasoning, worldview, and a theory of change, and discusses fitness metrics and design principles for new systems. This first paper proposes a worldview built using ideas from evolutionary biology, complex systems science, cognitive sciences, and information theory that is intended to serve as the foundation for the R&amp;D program.

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Are plants cognitive? A reply to Adams

Cited by 39 publications

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Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part I: Worldview

Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part I: Worldview

Approaching minimal cognition: introduction to the special issue

Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part I: Worldview

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