On plants and principles

Linson, Adam; Ponkshe, Aditya; Calvo, Paco

doi:10.1007/s10539-021-09793-3

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“…So… what about plants? Linson et al (2021) argue that our sufficient conditions are animal-centric. They also suggest that plants manifest many of the key features of UAL.…”

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“…There are several limitations to the UAL framework, only some of which were discussed in the target article, and which rightly worry some of the commentators. Before we start looking at these, however, we would like to respond to a point made by Linson et al (2021), which, they maintain, challenges the very notion of unlimited heredity (UH) and UAL as transition markers. They argue that the number of realized variations in a system of UH or UAL is shaped by the interactions of the organism with its environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to one commentary (Brown et al 2021), UAL has no relevance to consciousness because a necessary higher-order ingredient is lacking. At the opposite extreme, Linson et al (2021) believe that we are too restrictive in refusing to attribute consciousness to plants, which display remarkable adaptive plasticity. Several commentators (Rudrauf and Williford 2021;Levin 2021;Mallatt 2021) point to additional research directions with the potential to enrich and extend the UAL approach.…”

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The learning-consciousness connection

2021

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This is a response to the nine commentaries on our target article “Unlimited Associative Learning: A primer and some predictions”. Our responses are organized by theme rather than by author. We present a minimal functional architecture for Unlimited Associative Learning (UAL) that aims to tie to together the list of capacities presented in the target article. We explain why we discount higher-order thought (HOT) theories of consciousness. We respond to the criticism that we have overplayed the importance of learning and underplayed the importance of spatial modelling. We decline the invitation to add a negative marker to our proposed positive marker so as to rule out consciousness in plants, but we nonetheless maintain that there is no positive evidence of consciousness in plants. We close by discussing how UAL relates to development and to its material substrate.

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“…So… what about plants? Linson et al (2021) argue that our sufficient conditions are animal-centric. They also suggest that plants manifest many of the key features of UAL.…”

Section: Positive and Negative Markersmentioning

confidence: 96%

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The learning-consciousness connection

2021

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“…Unfortunately, space limitations prevent me from a separate and thorough consideration of this issue. See Calva (2017);Calvo, Sahi, and Trewavas (2017);Taiz et al (2019);Mallatt et al (2020);Draguhn, Mallatt, and Robinson (2020);Ginsburg and Jablonka (2021);and Linson, Ponkshe, and Calvo (2021).…”

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Could All Life Be Sentient?

Thompson

2022

Journal of Consciousness Studies

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This paper concerns biopsychism, the position that feeling is a vital activity of all organisms or living beings. It evaluates biopsychism specifically from the perspective of the enactive conception of life and life–mind continuity. Does the enactive conception of life as fundamentally a value-constituting and value-driven process imply a conception of life as sentient of value? Although a plausible case can be made, there remains a conceptual and inferential gap between differential responsiveness to value and hedonic value or affective valence. Nevertheless, the case for zoopsychism — that animals are the only sentient living beings — over biopsychism is also inconclusive.

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On plants and principles

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