Are plants intelligent?
Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings?
Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior?
Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient
Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert:
they are too silent, too sedentary -- just too different from us. Yet
discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged these ideas,
shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilities and complex
interior lives of plants.
In Brilliant Green, Stefano Mancuso, a leading scientist and founder of the field of plant
neurobiology, presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the
vegetal world. Combining a historical perspective with the latest in
plant science, Mancuso argues that, due to cultural prejudices and human
arrogance, we continue to underestimate plants. In fact, they process
information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another -- showing that,
far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware. Through a
survey of plant capabilities from sight and touch to communication,
Mancuso challenges our notion of intelligence, presenting a vision of
plant life that is more sophisticated than most imagine.
Plants
have much to teach us, from network building to innovations in robotics
and man-made materials -- but only if we understand more about how they
live. Part botany lesson, part manifesto, Brilliant Green is an engaging and passionate examination of the inner workings of the plant kingdom.
by Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola
Financial support for the translation of this book has been provided by
SEPS: Segretariato Europeo Per Le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche.
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