John & listers--
The book looks fascinating!
I highly recommend this Radiolab podcast from 2016. It's about the
mycorrhizal networks that link forest trees together. The networks
convey nutrients and, it seems, a fair amount of information among trees.
"From Tree to Shining Tree"
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-tree-to-shining-tree
kp
On 4/17/2020 12:28 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
John - thank you so very much for this post. I agree with your
comments about plants - and as you say- from bacteria up. Peirce would
even include chemical processes.
Edwina
On Fri 17/04/20 12:09 PM , "John F. Sowa" s...@bestweb.net sent:
In some theories of ontology, the focus on scientific principles
tends to omit or downgrade the importance of goals, intentions,
and feelings. Such issues are often deprecated as
"anthropomorphic". Other systems, which emphasize neuroscience,
downgrade any kind of memory or reasoning that is not based on
neurons. Even the field of biosemiotics puts more emphasis on
animals with brains than single-celled protozoa, which have no
neurons. The semiotics of plants was usually ignored.
But in recent years, biologists have discovered the complex
methods of communication, memory, and learning by plants. For a
review of those methods, see "The secret life of plants: How they
memorize, communicate, problem solve, and socialize":
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-secret-life-of-plants-how-they-memorise-communicate-problem-solve-and-socialise?utm_source=pocket-newtab
These developments show the importance of broadening the
foundations of ontology to include phytosemiotics as well as
zoosemiotics. Those issues are fundamental to every aspect of
life from bacteria on up. They cannot be dismissed as "unscientific".
John
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