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Plant intelligence and attention.

Michael Marder1

  • 1Department of Philosophy; The University of the Basque Country; UPV-EHU; Ikerbasque: Basque Foundation for Science; Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country.

Plant Signaling & Behavior
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This study explores plant attention to environmental cues, comparing plant and animal attentiveness. Understanding plant attention could be key to studying plant intelligence.

Keywords:
attentionfocusintentionalityphenomenologyplant intelligenceselectivity

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Area of Science:

  • Plant signaling and behavior
  • Cognitive science
  • Phenomenology

Background:

  • Plants perceive and respond to environmental stimuli.
  • Attention is a key cognitive process in animals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To apply the phenomenological model of attention to plant monitoring of environmental stimuli.
  • To explore plant attention in terms of selectivity, modulation, and perdurance.
  • To compare plant attentive attitudes with animal and human attention.

Main Methods:

  • Phenomenological model of attention
  • Analysis of plant signaling and behaviors (foraging, ramet placement, abiotic stress communication)
  • Comparison of plant, animal, and human attention levels (cognitive focus, context, margin)

Main Results:

  • Attention, defined as selectivity, modulation, and perdurance, is applicable to plant signaling and behaviors.
  • Plant attention shares elements with animal and human attentive attitudes at the level of cognitive focus, context, and margin.

Conclusions:

  • The concept of attention offers a framework for understanding plant perception and response.
  • Attention has the potential to be a foundational concept in the study of plant intelligence.