{"id":109357,"date":"2020-06-30T21:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T04:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/is-plant-intelligence-just-a-human-fantasy"},"modified":"2020-06-30T21:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T04:43:28","slug":"is-plant-intelligence-just-a-human-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/is-plant-intelligence-just-a-human-fantasy","title":{"rendered":"Is Plant \u2018Intelligence\u2019 Just a Human Fantasy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBGt5OeAQFk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although plants <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/115\/25\/6506\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/115\/25\/6506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make up over 80%<\/a> of the biomass on Earth, for centuries they have been thought of as inanimate and passive <em>things<\/em>. Researchers even coined the term \u201c<a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/article\/53\/10\/926\/254897\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/article\/53\/10\/926\/254897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plant blindness<\/a>\u201d to refer to a cognitive bias that literally makes our brains zone out plants in our view and underestimate their importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although plants make up over 80% of the biomass on Earth, for centuries they have been thought of as inanimate and passive things. Researchers even coined the term \u201cplant blindness\u201d to refer to a cognitive bias that literally makes our brains zone out plants in our view and underestimate their importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}