An article by Amanda Gefter in Nautilus, “What Plants Are Saying About Us,” explains that although plants don’t have a brain, they do have autonomy, intelligence, adaptivity, and sense-making — that is, they have cognition. They’re not that different from us. And our cognition is more than our brains, too.
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The photo of jungle plants in the mist is by me, incidentally. I took it this summer in a greenhouse at the Real Jardín Botánico (Royal Botanical Garden) in Madrid, Spain. Plants can dazzle us with their beauty as well as their intellect.
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Meanwhile, Amazon wants me to buy this book. I’ve read it already, however, dozens of times.
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An article in The Conversation discusses five speculative novels that can help to understand our relationship with soil. One of them is Semiosis, which I’ve also read dozens of times.
Semiosis 