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  1. Stephen Harrod Buhner _ Plant Intelligence and the

    The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the door keeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to. ROBERT BLY
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  2. Stephen Harrod Buhner _ Plant Intelligence and the

    In a dynamic and self-organizing state, this open-endedness is most pronounced at the point of bifurcation: the critical or singular moment when a system has the potential of entering one or two or more available states. NIGEL CLARK
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  3. Stephen Harrod Buhner _ Plant Intelligence and the

    It turns out that Clark's Nutcrackers use a highly sophisticated form of triangulation to determine cache locations. When they make a cache they visually locate two landscape features in order to triangulate their cache."
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  4. Stephen Harrod Buhner _ Plant Intelligence and the

    {W}hen food is placed at the start and end points of the maze, the slime mold withdraws from the dead-end corridors and shrinks its body to a tube spanning the shortest path between food sources. The single-celled slime solves the maze in this way each time it is tested."23 Toshiyuki Nakagaki, the researcher conducting the study, commented that Even for humans it is not easy to solve a maze. But the plasmodium of true slime mold, an amoeba-like organism, has shown an amazing ability to do so. This implies that an algorithm and a high computing capacity are included in the unicellular organism.24 This capacity for mathematical differentiation and computation is wide spread. All self-organized biological systems possess it. One of the more amazing examples is the Clark's Nutcracker.
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  5. Stephen Harrod Buhner _ Plant Intelligence and the

    Michael Crichton once commented . . . It did not take long before the scientists began to notice that complex systems showed certain common behaviors. They started to think of these behaviors as characteristic of all complex systems. They realized that these behaviors could not be explained by analyzing the components of the systems. The time-honored scientific approach of reductionism-taking the watch apart to see how it worked-didn't get you anywhere with complex systems, because the interesting behavior seemed to arise from the spontaneous interaction of the components.1
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