Javier Osorio Mancilla
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada, España
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Historically, plants have received a secondary role in scientific research by assuming that they are organisms with automatic and predetermined behavior. However, the new perspectives in cognitive sciences allow us to understand plants as organisms with certain cognitive activity due to their great capacity to adapt to their surroundings. The so-called embodied cognition offers a framework for thinking about what we mean by cognition and intelligence. If we understand cognition in adaptive terms, then we can say that plants must be treated as intelligent organisms embedded in an ever-changing environment.
