Planta Sapiens
What is it like to be a plant?
It’s not a question we might think to contemplate, even though many of us live surrounded by plants. Science has long explored the wonderful ways in which plants communicate, behave and shape their environments: from chemical warfare to turning their predators to cannibalism. But they’re usually just the backdrop to our frenetic animal lives.
While plants may not have brains or move around as we do, cutting-edge science is revealing that they have astonishing inner worlds of an alternate kind to ours. They can plan ahead, learn, recognise their relatives, assess risks and make decisions. They can even be put to sleep. Innovative new tools might allow us to actually see them do these things – from electrophysiological recordings to MRI and PET scans. If you can look in the right way, a world full of drama unfurls.
In PLANTA SAPIENS, Professor Paco Calvo offers a bold new perspective on plant biology and cognitive science. Using the latest scientific findings, Calvo challenges us to make an imaginative leap into a world that is so close and yet so alien – one that will expand our understanding of our own minds.
From their rich subjective experiences to how they are inspiring novel ways of approaching the ecological crisis, PLANTA SAPIENS is a dazzling exploration of the lives of plants and a call to approach how we think about the natural world in a new, maverick way.
We are unimaginable without plants, yet surprisingly blind to their powers and behaviors. Planta Sapiens weaves science and history into an absorbing exploration of the many ways that plants rise to the challenge of living.
We are unimaginable without plants, yet surprisingly blind to their powers and behaviors. Planta Sapiens weaves science and history into an absorbing exploration of the many ways that plants rise to the challenge of living.
Are plants conscious? Before you say no, read this fascinating new book by philosopher and scientist Paco Calvo.
I thought of Arrival while reading Paco Calvo’s remarkable book … Calvo has a wonderfully infectious enthusiasm for his subject that makes this book, for all its complex science, a joy to read. He challenges us to set aside our ‘zoocentric’ perspective and to change our view of plants radically … a genuinely mind-expanding book.
PLANTA SAPIENS presents “fertile possibilities” to the public and in doing so it has put science on nice…We should be delighted with Professor Calvo’s seeding of scientific curiosity for the hope that it offers.
PLANTA SAPIENS is [a] bold and brave paean to our planet’s ligneous, leafy kingdom. I mostly relished the intellectual interrogation, the maverick thinking, and add my voice to his call to think beyond our prejudices and our anthropocentric indoctrination.
Planta Sapiens News
Paco Calvo on Intelligent Plants in Podcast “The Science in the Fiction”
MINT Lab Head Paco Calvo gets interviewed by the podcast “The Science in the Fiction”
Planta Sapiens Events
Online Course Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
Online Course Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
Join Paco's online workshop hosted in 3 sessions (6/18, 6/25,7/2) on plant intelligence!
Online Course Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
Online Course Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
Join Paco's online workshop hosted in 3 sessions (6/18, 6/25,7/2) on plant intelligence!
Online Course Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
Online Course Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
Join Paco's online workshop hosted in 3 sessions (6/18, 6/25,7/2) on plant intelligence!