Humans can talk, animals can make sounds, but what about plants?

Humans can talk, animals can make sounds, but what about plants? We think of plants as passive organisms unlike animals that can communicate, move and hunt for food. Are behaviors like the ability to communicate by talking, to hunt, or to build a nest signs of intelligence? Plants do not have a nervous system or a brain, which for us humans is the organ system we associate most with intelligence and consciousness. So, if you would learn how plants communicate and move, would you call this intelligence as well? Watch the TED talk by Stefano Mancuso about ‘The roots of plant intelligence Links to an external site.‘ and let’s discuss what counts as intelligence. You can widen the topic by discussing if consciousness is unique to humans, or maybe animals, but probably not plants or microorganisms. 

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I learned a lot from this Ted Talk by Stefano Mancuso, he says that plants are more sophisticated in the sense that they are able to sense way more than animals can. Their structures allow them to monitor at least 15 different chemical and physical parameters and show off manuarisms and behaviors that show intelligence isn’t to far off of a word that could describe them. There are so many instances where plants show intelligence- like when venus fly traps eat their prey or when plant leaves move as if they’re dancing to catch the sun rays or when they actually go to sleep at night and slow their movements and wake up as the sun comes back out. One of the most interesting things I saw from this video was the timelapse of the adolescent sunflower plants literally playing around as if they were kids playing with friends as intelligent beings do as they get themselves ready for adulthood. 

In my personal life – I don’t know how true it is – I always heard that if you speak nicely and happy to your plants they will grow beautifully and if you don’t of if you give them bad vibes they will not thrive. Maybe it is true- maybe they really are that intelligent.