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SUMMARY:Incredible Minds
DESCRIPTION:Incredible Minds: Exploring Actual\, Virtual\, and Possible Minds Across Living Matter \n\n\n\nwith Paco Calvo\, Lars Chittka\, Audrey Dussutour\, Michael Levin\, Julia Mossbridge\, Matthew Segall \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nApril 22 – May 7\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDo plants have feelings? How blind are we to their own internal experiences? Perhaps they offer an untapped opportunity to reconsider how we understand ourselves. What about bees? Do we appreciate their unique cognitive abilities\, both as a group and as individuals? Their brains may grant them a kind of consciousness akin\, or not\, to ours. And\, what about cells? How does bioelectricity contribute to their collective problem-solving? Given the evolution of their multiscale competencies\, one can marvel at the relentless manifestation of such accomplishments throughout development\, every time a batch of chemicals becomes a metacognitive human. Let us also ask whether synthetic life forms could have minds\, or whether they only behave as if they did. Can we tell? How do slime molds\, a sister group to fungi and animals\, live and thrive in worlds as complex as our own. We can use such creatures to learn to think critically and better understand science itself. What\, if anything\, is then uniquely human about our minds? Does our desire for improvement hinder the very possibility of self-transcendence? Here’s a challenge: to continue learning about us and the world while loving everything as it is. Is the cosmos really a fluke accident sprinkled with improbable biological organisms with epiphenomenal minds? It is ironic that some conscious intelligences (mainly academics) insist on explaining themselves away. An alternative cosmology\, and no less scientifically compatible\, can root mind and life in cosmogenesis from the very beginning. Thus\, at the end of the day\, all such alien minds living in all such alien worlds may be more natural\, and even more incredible\, than we are led to believe. Join us to explore and enjoy them all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday April 22Planta Sapiens: The Incredible Minds of Plantswith Dr. Paco Calvo \n\n\n\nSunday April 23The Mind of a Beewith Dr. Lars Chittka \n\n\n\nSaturday April 29The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis: What Bioelectricity Outside the Brain Means for Understanding our Multiscale Naturewith Dr. Michael Levin \n\n\n\nSunday April 30Human Thinking and Human Beingwith Dr. Julia Mossbridge \n\n\n\nSaturday May 6The Use of Slime Molds in Promoting Science for and by the Peoplewith Dr. Audrey Dussutour \n\n\n\nSunday May 7Mind and Life in the Cosmoswith Dr. Matthew David Segall
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SUMMARY:Planta Sapiens: The Incredible Minds of Plants
DESCRIPTION:Planta Sapiens: The Incredible Minds of Plants \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Paco Calvo \n\n\n\nSaturday April 22\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nPlants can be knocked out using the very same drug that your vet might use to put your pet to sleep. Although demonstrations of “plants under anaesthesia” provides the perfect blank slate from which to begin to view plants in an entirely new way\, this just the beginning. Take sleep; do plants sleep? Or can plants suffer from jet lag? Most people would assume I am talking metaphorically in my hot off the press Planta Sapiens. And yet\, planta sapiens is not unlike Harari’s Sapiens\, if you see what I mean. Plants biosynthesize their own melatonin that helps them regulate their circadian rhythms\, just as we do with our internal circadian clocks under the cycles of day and night. And what if plants could suffer or feel pain? Assuming otherwise is extremely convenient for the human purpose of guilt-free plant consumption\, but what if plants were like “locked-in syndrome” patients? What if they happened to have their own internal experiences that are just currently inaccessible to us? We cannot possibly ignore such a possibility. Many of the chemicals that control behavior and emotions in humans and other animals such as serotonin\, dopamine\, and adrenaline are also synthesized or have analogs in plants. Being expensive to produce\, it would make no evolutionary sense to manufacture such substances without purpose. Some of these chemicals are only produced in situations when plants are stressed or injured. Plants make many substances that have pain-killing or anesthetic effects\, such as ethylene. We certainly don’t know that these molecules act as painkillers in plants\, but given that they are created in stressful situations\, there is reason to believe that they serve to relieve suffering. From an evolutionary standpoint\, the ability to perceive pain or to suffer in some way is essential. More generally\, we need to consider the evolutionary importance of “feelings” beyond being an abstract distinguishing feature of humanity. Emotion and emotional behaviors might have evolved across the tree of life for very good reasons. They give the capacity to make rapid\, prioritized decisions in response to the demands of a dangerous environment. We are actually far more driven by emotions than we like to think—they are powerful guides! If it makes sense to animals to “trust their gut\,” it might as well pay off for plants to “trust their gut” too. It’s just unfortunate that our instincts are to ignore plants as background greenery because they don’t fit into our immediate\, fast-paced attention spans. However\, perhaps it’s time to rethink how we understand ourselves. Or so I’ll argue. \n\n\n\nPlanta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant IntelligencePaco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence \n\n\n\nTimes Literary Supplement – A manifesto inviting us to think about plants and our attitudes to them in revolutionary ways \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Incredible Minds program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaco Calvo (PhD\, University of Glasgow\, 2000) is a Professor of Philosophy of Science\, and Principal Investigator of the MinimalIntelligence Laboratory (MINTLab) at the University of Murcia (Spain). \n\n\n\nHis research interests range broadly within the cognitive sciences\, with special emphasis on plant intelligence\, ecological psychology and embodied cognitive science\, robotics and AI. \n\n\n\nHe uses time-lapse photography to explore perception-action and learning in plants. His scientific articles have appeared in Annals of Botany\, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications\, Frontiers in Neurorobotics\, Frontiers in Robotics and AI\, Journal of the Royal Society\, Plant\, Cell & Environment\, Plant Signaling & Behavior\, Scientific Reports\, and Trends in Plant Science\, among other journals. He is co-author with Natalie Lawrence of Planta Sapiens (Little\, Brown (UK); Norton (US)).
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