Intelligent behaviour, a complex adaptive phenomenon, is designed to increase fitness
in variable environmental circumstances particularly those involving resource foraging and
competition. Biologists suggest that intelligence encompasses the characteristics of detailed sensory
perception, information processing, learning, memory, choice, efficient optimisation of resource sequestration
with minimal outlay, self-recognition, and foresight by predictive modelling. There is good evidence
that individual plant species exhibit all of these intelligent behavioural capabilities. Plants should
therefore be regarded as prototypical intelligent organisms, a concept that has considerable consequences for
evolutionary convergence and investigations of whole plant communication, computation and signal
transduction. |