Do Plants Have Minds?
Food for ThoughtCost:
$ 25.00 per personDuration:
1hAbout this experience
Monday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
April 14
UNCG School Moore Humantities and Research Administration Building
Throughout the history of psychology, it has been suggested from time to time that plants may have at least some of the mental characteristics of animals and even humans. In modern times, there are several well-established phenomena in plants that are analogous to those that lead us to infer mental activity when we see them in animals. What does it mean to say that something has a mind? How should we infer mental activity from observable behavior? What kinds of mental activity (if any) can be attributed to plants based on current empirical evidence?
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Your Host
Tim Johnston is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Emeritus Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC Greensboro, where he was a faculty member for 41 years. He has taught classes in the history of psychology, animal behavior, general psychology, and the history of evolution. His current research and scholarship address topics in the history of the behavioral sciences.