Guidance of circumnutation of climbing bean stems: An ecological exploration
MINT Lab plant members Vicente Raja, Johnny Lee and lab director Paco Calvo published a pre-print on bean circumnutation and what role Tau may play in ecological guidance. Download it here!
Abstract
In this report we explore the guidance of circumnutation of climbing bean stems under the light of general rho/tau theory, a theory that aims to explain how living organisms guide goal-directed movements ecologically. We present some preliminary results on the control of circumnutation by climbing beans, and explore the possibility that the power of movement in plants, more generally, is controlled under ecological principles.
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Authors
Johnny Lee
Research Fellow
Johnny is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, UK, and currently doing research at the MINT Lab.
Paco Calvo
Lab Director
Paco is the Director of the MINT Lab and a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Murcia, Spain.
Vicente Raja
Research Fellow
Vicente is a post-doctoral researcher and specializes in Ecological Psychology.