Paco Calvo (University of Murcia)
My talk introduces plant intelligence in terms of neo-Gibsonian ecological psychology and embodied cognitive science. Plants take action in response to their needs. We may understand how plants perceive and act purposefully in terms of the coupling of an embodied system that is embedded in its environment. On another note, plants have a nerve-like vascular system that forms a complex information-processing network (Calvo, Sahi & Trewavas 2017). Considering that consciousness appears to play a role in prioritizing the order of an organism's responses, my talk explores the possibility of plant subjective awareness, provided that vascular networks determine priority of responses.
