Extended cognition in plants: is it possible?

Parise, André Geremia; Gagliano, Monica; Souza, Gustavo Maia

doi:10.1080/15592324.2019.1710661

Cited by 46 publications

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“…The criterion of mutual manipulation is therefore a good model of cognition via an organism rather than a physical object and can be extended to another organism of a different kingdom [70]. It supports our model of the plant as ecoplastic interface and considering the dynamic coupling of the plant and its environment (milieu) as inseparable from its cognitive valence, in part thanks to the electrome that highly contributes to the development of sensitiveness and communicative functions of plants [2,11].…”

Section: Small Brains Great Cognitionsupporting

confidence: 74%

“…Are we not here describing a phenomenon of cognitive nature, whether it is located, distributed, embodied or extended as the interconnections in shared underground networks might suggest (Parise et al, 2019) [70]. Are we not here describing somatotopic phenomena at the scale of the entire plant, therefore delocalized and integrative but not involving any central unit?…”

Section: Third Included Subjectity and Coextensive Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Let us return now to plant cognition, Parise et al [70] show with regard to extended cognition, that when the spider weaves its web, it is all its body that becomes an extension of the environment and that external physical objects are part of the cognitive system of the animal or that it can handle them. This is also the case with bird nests to a lesser extent, and tools made and used by certain animals, notably primates with tools and humans with the development of writing and now AI.…”

Section: Small Brains Great Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Electrome & Cognition Modes in Plants: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Eco-Sensitiveness of the World

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Recent studies on plant-environment and plant-human relationships reveal the need to reassess thescales of perception, sensitiveness and cognition of living systems. The complexity of plant's emergingbehaviors in interaction with the environment is supported by the signature of the electrome and theplant sensorium, a strong argument to establish the singularity of the living and weights its consequencesin evolutionary, ecological or socioeconomic terms. This paper highlights the cognitive value of access tothe experience of plants and its fundamentally mesological or ecoplastic nature, that is to say in directconnection with a singular milieu. This dynamic coupling makes it possible to explain the co-construction ofan intelligible and sensible world without the use of a brain, principle that reframes the concept of intelligentbehavior while revealing both the frontiers in cognition and the strong transdisciplinary challenges of anacute awareness of the man's fragility as of the planetary ecosystem at the era of the Antropocene.

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Section: Small Brains Great Cognitionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Section: Third Included Subjectity and Coextensive Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Small Brains Great Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Electrome & Cognition Modes in Plants: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Eco-Sensitiveness of the World

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2020

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“…Another aspect stemming from this study is its empirical support to the construction of a solid theory for plant cognition (Calvo, 2007;Parise, Gagliano, & Souza, 2020;Segundo-Ortin & Calvo, 2019). For instance, plants have been excluded from the wider cognitive domain as it was thought that they lacked the sensorimotor organization that characterizes animals (Calvo & Keijzer, 2009).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Speed–accuracy trade-off in plants

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Speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT) is the tendency for decision speed to covary with decision accuracy. SAT is an inescapable property of aimed movements being present in a wide range of species, from insects to primates. An aspect that remains unsolved is whether SAT extends to plants' movement. Here, we tested this possibility by examining the swaying in circles of the tips of shoots exhibited by climbing plants (Pisum sativum L.) as they approach to grasp a potential support. In particular, by means of three-dimensional kinematical analysis, we investigated whether climbing plants scale movement velocity as a function of the difficulty to coil a support. Results showed that plants are able to process the properties of the support before contact and, similarly to animal species, strategically modulate movement velocity according to task difficulty.

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“…Slime moulds are able to navigate mazes (Reid et al 2012), solve problems (Reid et al 2016), and use speed-accuracy trade-offs (Latty and Beekman 2010). Plants also exhibit information acquisition, memory, learning, decision making, and reaction to damage (Calvo Garzón and Keijzer 2011; Garzón and Keijzer 2009;Parise et al 2020). Under some of the criteria set out by M&P, certain fungi and plants should also be eligible for ethical consideration.…”

Section: Which Criteria Matter?mentioning

confidence: 99%