{"id":583,"date":"2015-09-25T20:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/?p=583"},"modified":"2015-09-27T07:13:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T04:13:46","slug":"plants-as-intelligent-beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/2015\/09\/25\/plants-as-intelligent-beings\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants as intelligent beings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2013\/12\/23\/the-intelligent-plant\">The Intelligent Plant<\/a><\/strong>, was published in The New Yorker december 23, 2013. The author, Michael Pollan, offers us a brief survey of an emerging field devoted to the understanding of plants: &#8220;&#8230;The hypothesis that intelligent behavior in plants may be an emergent property of cells exchanging signals in a network might sound far-fetched, yet the way that intelligence emerges from a network of neurons may not be very different. Most neuroscientists would agree that, while brains considered as a whole function as centralized command centers for most animals, within the brain there doesn\u2019t appear to be any command post; rather, one finds a leaderless network. That sense we get when we think about what might govern a plant\u2014that there is no there there, no wizard behind the curtain pulling the levers\u2014may apply equally well to our brains&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article, The Intelligent Plant, was published in The New Yorker december 23, 2013. The author, Michael Pollan, offers us a brief survey of an emerging field devoted to the understanding of plants: &#8220;&#8230;The hypothesis that intelligent behavior in plants may be an emergent property of cells exchanging signals in a network might sound far-fetched, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/2015\/09\/25\/plants-as-intelligent-beings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plants as intelligent beings?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[13,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysrep.aalto.fi\/lilydiaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}