Sadaputa, July 8, 1976, Washington, D.C.: We were wondering… We knew that, for example, Jagadisha Chandra Bose did some experiments indicating plants having consciousness. We were wondering if some things of that kind might be of some use.
Prabhupada: So in the Calcutta there is Bose Institute, you can go and see. They have got all machine, how the plants are feeling. Everything is there. Full Conversation
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"The Venus Flytrap won't close its trap always..."
Do Plants Have Intelligence?
The mechanism of trapping of a Venus Flytrap: The Venus Flytrap is able to determine what kind of insect is within its trap and thus regulates the speed of closing the trap up to within 0.3 sec. According to the type of prey, the Venus Flytrap decides what type of gastric acid is being applied.
Professor Stefano Mancuso knows it isn’t easy being green: He runs the world’s only laboratory dedicated to plant intelligence.
At the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology (LINV), about seven miles outside Florence, Italy, Mancuso and his team of nine work to debunk the myth that plants are low-life. Research at the modern building combines physiology, ecology and molecular biology.
“If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us,” says Mancuso, dressed in harmonizing shades of his favorite color: green. “Not only are they ‘smart’ in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neuroses. Intelligence isn’t only about having a brain.”
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