Plants are intelligent, here's how
Anthony Trewavas · 2019 · Annals of Botany, 125(1), 11-28
This source is used as context evidence across 1 linked claim and 3 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Review defending a broad behavioral/adaptive sense of plant intelligence rooted in goal-directed adjustment and individual variation.
How this source is used on the map
Important for distinguishing plant intelligence from plant consciousness: the former is a live conceptual debate, the latter remains much more speculative.
Citation record
- Authors
- Anthony Trewavas
- Year
- 2019
- Publication
- Annals of Botany, 125(1), 11-28
- Source type
- Review
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.1093/aob/mcz155
- PubMed
- Recorded
- Not recorded
Editorial note
The paper uses intelligence broadly. It should not be cited as direct evidence for plant pain, sentience, or animal-like consciousness.
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Related evidence hubs
Related sources
Use this as the philosophical background for solipsism and for disputed minds in non-human or artificial systems. It is context, not direct evidence that any specific entity is conscious.
Useful pro-plant-cognition context, but it addresses signaling and adaptive behavior rather than subjective experience.
Use this for context around plant intelligence claims. It supports plant responsiveness and signaling, not the stronger claim that plants have subjective experience or pain.
Primary skeptical anchor for the plant-consciousness page.
Keeps the plant-consciousness page from confusing complex plant signaling with evidence of felt experience.