4 papers in the library · 27 citations · publishing 2019-2024
EMBO Reports March 28, 2024 David G Robinson, Jon Mallatt, Wendy Ann Peer et al. 12 citations
The proponents of CBC claim that all living organisms down to prokaryotes have consciousness. However, their arguments lack empirical evidence or are refuted by established facts. [Image: see text]
Animal Sentience April 28, 2023 Jon Mallatt, David G. Robinson, Michael R Blatt et al. 15 citations
Segundo-Ortin & Calvo’s (2023) target article takes a less speculative and more evidence-based approach to plant sentience than did previous works promoting that idea. However, it retains many of the idea’s longstanding difficulties such as starting from a false dichotomy (plants must be either hardwired or sentient), not accepting the full burden of proof for an extraordinary claim,...
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications July 30, 2021 Jon Mallatt, Lincoln Taiz, Andreas Draguhn et al.
It has been proposed by some plant scientists that plants are cognitive and conscious organisms, although this is a minority view. Here we present a brief summary of some of the arguments against this view, followed by a critique of an article in this same issue of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications by Calvo, Baluska, and Trewavas (2020) that cites Integrated Information Theory...
Trends in Plant Science August 1, 2019 Lincoln Taiz, D. Alkon, Andreas Draguhn et al.
In claiming that plants have consciousness, 'plant neurobiologists' have consistently glossed over the remarkable degree of structural and functional complexity that the brain had to evolve for consciousness to emerge. Here, we outline a new hypothesis proposed by Feinberg and Mallat for the evolution of consciousness in animals. Based on a survey of the brain anatomy, functional complexity,...