Food for Thought? French Bean Plants Show Signs of Intent, Say Scientists - Guardian

Paco Calvo at the University of Murcia’s minimal intelligence lab in Spain and Vicente Raja at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in London, Canada, conducted an experiment to test whether french bean plants could show goal-directed behaviors consistent with anticipation and fine-scaled tweaking of their movements. They did. Admittedly the result doesn't prove intent but "if plants really do possess intent, it would make sense," says Calvo. An in-depth examination of the controversial issue of sentient vegetation appears in the latest issue of EdgeScience, available as a free pdf from the Society for Scientific Exploration. The entire issue is devoted to the article "Sentient Plants: A Product of Nature or Human Imagination?" by journalist Krissy Eliot. (PH)

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