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'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian 'A
bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy kingdom'
Telegraph 'An impressive exploration and dazzling insight into the
lives of plants' Reaction Book Digest What is it like to be a
plant? It's not a question we might think to contemplate, even
though many of us live surrounded by plants. Science has long
explored the wonderful ways in which plants communicate, behave and
shape their environments: from chemical warfare to turning their
predators to cannibalism. But they're usually just the backdrop to
our frenetic animal lives. While plants may not have brains or move
around as we do, cutting-edge science is revealing that they have
astonishing inner worlds of an alternate kind to ours. They can
plan ahead, learn, recognise their relatives, assess risks and make
decisions. They can even be put to sleep. Innovative new tools
might allow us to actually see them do these things - from
electrophysiological recordings to MRI and PET scans. If you can
look in the right way, a world full of drama unfurls. In PLANTA
SAPIENS, Professor Paco Calvo offers a bold new perspective on
plant biology and cognitive science. Using the latest scientific
findings, Calvo challenges us to make an imaginative leap into a
world that is so close and yet so alien - one that will expand our
understanding of our own minds. From their rich subjective
experiences to how they are inspiring novel ways of approaching the
ecological crisis, PLANTA SAPIENS is a dazzling exploration of the
lives of plants and a call to approach how we think about the
natural world in a new, maverick way.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, Second Edition
is an invaluable guide and major reference source to the key
topics, problems, concepts, and debates in philosophy of psychology
and is the first companion of its kind. A team of renowned
international contributors provide forty-eight chapters, organized
into six clear parts: Historical background to philosophy of
psychology Psychological explanation Cognition and representation
The biological basis of psychology Perceptual experience
Personhood. The Companion covers key topics, such as the origins of
experimental psychology; folk psychology; behaviorism and
functionalism; philosophy, psychology and neuroscience; the
language of thought, modularity, nativism, and representational
theories of mind; consciousness and the senses; dreams, emotion,
and temporality; personal identity; and the philosophy of
psychopathology. For the second edition, six new chapters have been
added to address the following important topics: belief and
representation in nonhuman animals; prediction error minimization;
contemporary neuroscience; plant neurobiology; epistemic judgment;
and group cognition. Essential reading for all students of
philosophy of mind, science, and psychology, The Routledge
Companion to Philosophy of Psychology will also be of interest to
anyone studying psychology and its related disciplines.
Decades of research document plants’ impressive abilities: they
communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in
sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that although plants
may not have brains, their internal workings reveal a system not
unlike the neuronal networks running through our own bodies. They
can learn and remember, possessing an intelligence that allows them
to behave in flexible, forward-looking, and goal-directed ways. In
Planta Sapiens, Paco Calvo, a leading figure in the philosophy of
plant signaling and behavior, offers an entirely new perspective on
plants’ worlds, showing for the first time how we can use tools
developed to study animal cognition in a quest to understand plant
intelligence. Plants learn from experience: wild strawberries can
be taught to link light intensity with nutrient levels in the soil,
and flowers can time pollen production to pollinator visits. Plants
have social intelligence, releasing chemicals from their roots and
leaves to speak to and identify one another. They make decisions
about where to invest their growth, judging risk based on the
resources available. Their individual preferences vary,
too—plants have personalities. Calvo also illuminates how plants
inspire technological advancements, from robotics to AI. Most
importantly, he demonstrates that plants are not objects: they have
their own agency. If we recognize plants as actors alongside us in
the climate crisis—rather than seeing them simply as resources
for carbon capture and food production—plants may just be able to
help us tackle our most urgent problems.
Decades of research document plants’ impressive abilities: they
communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in
sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that although plants
may not have brains, their internal workings reveal a system not
unlike the neuronal networks running through our own bodies. They
can learn and remember, possessing an intelligence that allows them
to behave in flexible, forward-looking, and goal-directed ways. In
Planta Sapiens, Paco Calvo, a leading figure in the philosophy of
plant signaling and behavior, offers an entirely new perspective on
plants’ worlds, showing for the first time how we can use tools
developed to study animal cognition in a quest to understand plant
intelligence. Plants learn from experience: wild strawberries can
be taught to link light intensity with nutrient levels in the soil,
and flowers can time pollen production to pollinator visits. Plants
have social intelligence, releasing chemicals from their roots and
leaves to speak to and identify one another. They make decisions
about where to invest their growth, judging risk based on the
resources available. Their individual preferences vary,
too—plants have personalities. Calvo also illuminates how plants
inspire technological advancements, from robotics to AI. Most
importantly, he demonstrates that plants are not objects: they have
their own agency. If we recognize plants as actors alongside us in
the climate crisis—rather than seeing them simply as resources
for carbon capture and food production—plants may just be able to
help us tackle our most urgent problems.
'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian 'A
bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy kingdom'
Telegraph 'An impressive exploration and dazzling insight into the
lives of plants' Reaction Book Digest What is it like to be a
plant? It's not a question we might think to contemplate, even
though many of us live surrounded by plants. Science has long
explored the wonderful ways in which plants communicate, behave and
shape their environments: from chemical warfare to turning their
predators to cannibalism. But they're usually just the backdrop to
our frenetic animal lives. While plants may not have brains or move
around as we do, cutting-edge science is revealing that they have
astonishing inner worlds of an alternate kind to ours. They can
plan ahead, learn, recognise their relatives, assess risks and make
decisions. They can even be put to sleep. Innovative new tools
might allow us to actually see them do these things - from
electrophysiological recordings to MRI and PET scans. If you can
look in the right way, a world full of drama unfurls. In PLANTA
SAPIENS, Professor Paco Calvo offers a bold new perspective on
plant biology and cognitive science. Using the latest scientific
findings, Calvo challenges us to make an imaginative leap into a
world that is so close and yet so alien - one that will expand our
understanding of our own minds. From their rich subjective
experiences to how they are inspiring novel ways of approaching the
ecological crisis, PLANTA SAPIENS is a dazzling exploration of the
lives of plants and a call to approach how we think about the
natural world in a new, maverick way.
Have you ever sat and watched a plant? The very idea itself might
seem strange. We like to watch things that move, that do something.
But in fact, plants are doing a great deal too - plants behave, as
animals do - they are just doing it on a very different timescale.
They cannot move about freely like animals do, so they grow into
space instead and make new chemicals to interact with the species
around them. Not only that, but what causes them to do these
things, what drives this behaviour, is far more similar than we
humans, with our speedy, animal-centric perceptions, have always
assumed. If we learn to look differently, we might be amazed at
what we find. We are dismantling the traditional hierarchies of
nature: we are becoming increasingly aware of the interior lives of
other species and how much we share with them. We are also coming
to understand that there are many more ways to be intelligent than
we have previously believed. We can't see ourselves as the only,
privileged intelligent life on Earth any more. And if we are to
save the global biome, we must not. PLANTA SAPIENS opens up the
plant kingdom like never before and will transform how you view
other forms of life, to see plants as allies in tackling global
problems rather than as mere resources; as teachers from whom we
can learn about our own minds.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, Second Edition
is an invaluable guide and major reference source to the key
topics, problems, concepts, and debates in philosophy of psychology
and is the first companion of its kind. A team of renowned
international contributors provide forty-eight chapters, organized
into six clear parts: Historical background to philosophy of
psychology Psychological explanation Cognition and representation
The biological basis of psychology Perceptual experience
Personhood. The Companion covers key topics, such as the origins of
experimental psychology; folk psychology; behaviorism and
functionalism; philosophy, psychology and neuroscience; the
language of thought, modularity, nativism, and representational
theories of mind; consciousness and the senses; dreams, emotion,
and temporality; personal identity; and the philosophy of
psychopathology. For the second edition, six new chapters have been
added to address the following important topics: belief and
representation in nonhuman animals; prediction error minimization;
contemporary neuroscience; plant neurobiology; epistemic judgment;
and group cognition. Essential reading for all students of
philosophy of mind, science, and psychology, The Routledge
Companion to Philosophy of Psychology will also be of interest to
anyone studying psychology and its related disciplines.
The Handbook of Cognitive Science provides an overview of recent
developments in cognition research, relying upon non-classical
approaches. Cognition is explained as the continuous interplay
between brain, body, and environment, without relying on classical
notions of computations and representation to explain cognition.
The handbook serves as a valuable companion for readers interested
in foundational aspects of cognitive science, and neuroscience and
the philosophy of mind. The handbook begins with an introduction to
embodied cognitive science, and then breaks up the chapters into
separate sections on conceptual issues, formal approaches,
embodiment in perception and action, embodiment from an artificial
perspective, embodied meaning, and emotion and consciousness.
Contributors to the book represent research overviews from around
the globe including the US, UK, Spain, Germany, Switzerland,
France, Sweden, and the Netherlands.
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