Runtime: 1:29:12
How much brain do you need to be smart? Bees and ants perform marvels as colonies, though each insect has barely any brain. And plants-with no brain at all-exhibit behaviors that, by any definition, count as intelligent. Brace yourself for a mind-bending exploration of plants that learn new behaviors and warn their brainless fellows of danger; vines that compete with each other; molds that solve puzzles; and trees that communicate and cooperate through a ‘wood-wide web’ of microscopic mycological fibers. Perhaps the real question is, are we smart enough to appreciate the vast range of intelligence that surrounds us?
PARTICIPANTS: Monica Gagliano, Simon Garnier, Thomas Horton, Naomi Leonard, Mark Moffett
MODERATOR: Natalie Angier
MORE INFO ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND
PARTICIPANTS: www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/intelligence-without-brains/
Chapters:
0:00 - Program introduction
0:57 - Opening film on the study of plant intelligence
3:45 - Panelist introductions
5:25 - Plant bio-acoustics
12:55 - Slime mold intelligence
19:40 - Interaction between fungi and trees
30:04 - Plant memory and learning
44:30 - Transmission of memory in slime molds
48:35 - Collective intelligence
50:22 - Leaf-cutter ant intelligence
59:04 - Swarm behavior
1:06:04 - Applying swarm intelligence to robotics
1:13:05 - Moving beyond the neuronal model of intelligence
1:16:15 - Consciousness
1:18:40 - Ethics of our interaction with plants and animals
1:23:05 - Environmental effects on collaboration
CREDITS
- Produced by Micah Fink
- Associate Produced by Matt Carlstrom
- Opening film produced / edited by Vin Liota
- Music provided by APM
- Additional images and footage provided by: Getty Images, Shutterstock, Videoblocks
- Recorded at New York University
The Big Ideas Series is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation.
- SUBSCRIBE to our NOsection Channel and "ring the bell" for all the latest videos from WSF
- VISIT our Website: www.worldsciencefestival.com
- LIKE us on Facebook: worldsciencefestival
- FOLLOW us on Twitter: WorldSciFest
Ganger 214 k
Ganger 999 k
Ganger 214 k
Kommentarer
Chuck Cassel
Monica is so attractive,
Dag sidenthefilmandmusic
There’s a football club in U.K. where the football is so bad the crowd applaud the swallow display which occurs above the football ground . I think it might be Hull ..
4 dager sidenD4G13
Yea, very complex question, if we believe that killing plants is unethical, then even vegan-isms can’t be an ethical solution? It protects the animals of course, but now the plants are being mass farmed into their deaths without a proper life in their natural habitat? Does this contradict our strive for “good” ethics? And does it re-validate the eating of meat because humans evolved as omnivores and always had to consume other living beings to sustain our own life, So humans always have to consume life so why decide that animal life is more precious than plant life? Would love any input
4 dager sidenEdgar Wilson Roial
I think plant intelligence structure is distributed in contrast with animals which are centralized in the brain.
4 dager sidenthefilmandmusic
Love these discussions ..
4 dager sidenXiwen Fan
I LOVE this channel and i mean LOVE.
5 dager sidenTheDrewmanShow
Talking about taking out the guy in the white house during a coup with people dying. superior scientists as usual. every one of these talks is leftist political garbage laced and it ruins it. its not science.
7 dager sidenJuan Bonet
It's too bad that I'm retarded
8 dager sidenTheBeteljuice
Laugh all you want. I happen to know as a FACT that ALL plants LOVE Dostoevsky but despise Marcel Proust...
12 dager sidenJon Jameson
This isn't very surprising. Where is the brain in a sea anemone or a jellyfish? Yet there are also intelligent.
12 dager sidenCarmen Hughes
The stiff specialist ultimately explain because separated dimensionally soothe amongst a erratic saw. guarded, hot huge cent
12 dager sidenDonna Rhodes
If you look closer you will see those roots are actually becoming the tree ?!; let’s say they are traveling together ?; you just didn’t look at that picture to see why ? How ? And what they actually . Are 😃🐳
13 dager sidenDonna Rhodes
That slime looked just like inflammation from the human body ? Even looked like it has a beating heart ???.
13 dager sidenDonna Rhodes
I can show you that they are definitely listening !; with this podcast I’m watching at this moment .
13 dager sidenrelentless FPL mavericks
Check plant roots .. they may be a model of neural network
13 dager sidenpaco2ski
Feelings, nothing more than feelings, Trying to forget my feelings of love. Teardrops rolling down on my face, -- you people are exhausting .. take more mushrooms and maybe you'll come back
13 dager sidenVirgilio Blanco
Move away from universal "vibrations", and the supposedly Rational beings mind will live going in circles, like science, throwing out the baby with the bath water in relation with "Divine Creation". Supremacy is more harmful than one can ever suspect.
13 dager sidenolaolga
Fascinating!
13 dager sidenWTF? OVER!
One of the best discussions I have seen here. Very interesting and I think Natalie did a great job as moderator letting the conversation flow naturally and the participants leading into or allowing another to add their expertise to the discussion. It is also very refreshing to hear participants say, 'We dont know.' instead of filling in the gap with opinion.
13 dager sidenCorey Mann
So would humans just be a slime mold at our most basic level? A slime mold that has developed an exoskeleton and higher storage capacity in our evolved human neurons.
14 dager sidenAmfri Umi-Uchechi
FYI, the movie "Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants" relied heavily upon the work of Bose.
14 dager sidenJinn Doe
Brains without intelligence, the human animal.
14 dager sidenJoseph Wong
Good
14 dager sidenJoseph Wong
4.
14 dager sidenShota Toriumi
The zealous pint ultrastructurally attach because cheese expectantly signal within a honorable digger. encouraging, early oven
14 dager sidenPlocký
Humans recently surpassed the biomass on earth BTW. So, there is now more mass made by humans than there is organig material on earth. Just to correct her first statement xD
14 dager sidenPierre-Yves Chauvet
What about unintelligence with a brain?
14 dager sidenJames Darr
This is SO ridiculous! It's like Liberal Arts!
14 dager sidenmikestmp
I'm kind of wondering if, the adaptation of the mycelia network plants take on; is somehow similar to the way our cells have absorbed mitochondria into the cells structure; adding it into our DNA. If we look will we find that there are markers specifically in plants for utilizing mycelia networks? Not in the way our cells make it themselves, but the cells in the roots actively seek out the network or cultivate for their own needs.
15 dager sidenSmiley P
31:15 well that's bullshit
15 dager sidenChris Charles
Plants might not have a brain, but who says they doesn't have a mine?
15 dager sidenEduardo de Regules
Wow. I don't know how I ended here, but boy, was that interesting!!! 👍
15 dager sidenEarth Bound
Does this lady elaborate on how the Chili Plants knew what types of other plants were growing around them? Saying "They obviously knew" doesnt cut it for skeptics
15 dager sidenEarth Bound
Humans are so able to enhance the lives of all other life forms on planet Earth, if we choose to. We are also able to do the opposite, if we are careless
15 dager sidenJoshua 333
Imagine that. Nature doesn't do diversity. Trees don't decide they're a different tree. Animals, birds etc. Only mate with same species. Diversity is not a strength and this proves it
15 dager sidenMira Desnan
So whats the point? You just mix up 2 definitions of diversity. Nice try but too obvious
15 dager sidenJoshua 333
57:00 go ahead you put of shape piece of crap. See where that gets you
15 dager sidenYarbloco
I'd recommend Paul Stamet on Joe Rogan for more on fungi
16 dager sidenChess
Bollocks.
16 dager sidenmarianwhit
The assumption of science is that we don't know the answer, and requires a kind of humility absent of assumption to carefully look at every possibility without bias. I don't understand why we demonize these people so much when this group more than any other shows us how little we know about the most obvious things...how much we dismiss the very living beings that support us in every possible way. How did we get this far without knowing these things?
16 dager sidenInterglacial Optimist
Plants love CO2 so I sit with my plants and talk to him to raise the CO2
16 dager sidenLazy Nyt
So different from political debates. Made me thinks this is typical example of how scientists contribute to progress of human race by cooperation AND politicians undo that by causing divisions among people and make one hostile towards the other. Shocking isn't it? Edit: btw why they got difficulties to describe what they're saying using only words, hence using hands gestures and body movements too? But why political debates never needing more than mouths?
16 dager sidenmaria ekman
HELLO, VEGANS!!! 😂
16 dager sidenmaria ekman
I knew it.
16 dager sidenDennis Orvis
Is God..i would believe.
16 dager sidenEQ Talks
Intelligent designer, designed intelligent creations. Pretty easy to understand.
17 dager sidenvelvetpaws999
Ha ha... I always KNEW that I could hear the grass grow! Yay! As for intelligence, and the notion of brain, we only fail to recognize the intelligence of different species, because we compare them to us. Why do humans always believe that we are the pinnacle of evolution and intelligence? If that were true, we should have created peace on Earth by now.... where is it? Intelligence may be something different from human intelligence altogether. There are powerful ways and wordless means of communication which we humans have neglected to practice. I am saying that, because I believe we could have very different skill sets, if only we were inclined to admit to them and practice them. I am thinking of telepathy, for instance, and intuitive processing. But no! We are glorifying the intellect as being the utmost "us". I want to remind everybody that the intellect is just a tool, it is not "us", regardless of how sharp it may be. And I refuse to join those who say it is what defines the human being. That's where we went wrong. That's also where lot of science research went and still is going wrong.
17 dager sidenCraig Simpson
The telling pyjama causally wash because antelope apically cross below a subsequent temple. ordinary, rampant dresser
17 dager sidenArne Sahlen
The big problem we face now: brains without intelligence. 🥴😬😰
17 dager sidenLucifer TheMourningstar
6 and two thirds
17 dager sidenLucifer TheMourningstar
Hmmm??? Mimosa is DMT. They are working with spirit science
17 dager sidenLucifer TheMourningstar
The 'spark' of life
17 dager sidenFirstname Lastname
Wow how many of those nutcases actually work in the US government?? Maybe they should study those guys for signs of intelligence. Will be even harder than finding it in plants.
17 dager sidendarkhunter
Paul stemets should have been on here
17 dager sidenTwicce
Fascinating
17 dager sidencaptainboggles
all long since covered in the book "PLANT INTELLIGENCE and the imaginal realm" by Stephen Harrod Buhner.
17 dager sidencaptainboggles
better than the human race "Brains without Intelligence"
17 dager sidenAnzay Warid
Silly laughter spoiled it from the beginning of this talk. Here is a very serious and interesting area of research about plants and how they communicate underground, and also about how slime can find the shortest route to exit outside of a maze, but I found the first two participants very annoying with their laughter and their quite insufficient explanations of what they had found and what they were doing with it. Despite the slides, explanations remained scant. We need a different kind of presentation to explain the subjects broached here more efficiently.
17 dager sidenRandom Videos
Bookmark 18:00
18 dager sidenDavid Collins
If these people are typical, then biologists and ecologists have great senses of humor!
18 dager sidenFelicity Neale
This is soooo engaging. Loved every minute of it.
18 dager sidenRafael Valencia
Intelligence without a brain is called consciousness.
18 dager sidenElvin
Beautiful
18 dager sidenRhona Ann Proxenos
These discussions proof my theory that all life forms on earth are earthlings. Every organism from a virus to the giant redwoods and whales are earthlings. When we arrogant humans realise this amazing fact we may be able heal this planet even to the point of reversing climate change.
18 dager sidenGregory Byrne
All energy comes from the sun. Co2+h20 captures the energy of the SUN & creates life. Life is food and shelter. Food and shelter creates wealth. ClimateChange is has and will always be caused by the Milankovitch cycles. Covid1984 like co2 is a lie built upon inconvenient truths. Cv1984 being the Baby BOOMERS turning Seniors Bust due to the usual suspects of seasonal FLU and old age.
19 dager sidenMatt Mann
Intelligence Without Brains.....sounds like what the human race is morphing too.
19 dager sidenFLAT EARTH
IF THE EARTH WAS REALLY SPINNING AT 1000 MPH PEOPLE WOULD BE FALLING DOWN AND THINGS WOULD BE FLYING EVERYWHERE !! TRY STANDING ON THE ROOF OF A CAR GOING JUST 100 MPH !! ITS ALL A LIE !! WE FLAT EARTHERS KNOW ITS FLAT BECAUSE WE HAVE PROOF !! WE HAVE MEETINGS AND EVERYTHING !! AND THIS AND THAT, AND WHAT NOT , AND WHAT HAVE YOU .. DONT LISTEN TO NASA ! IT STANDS FOR Not, Always,Telling the Truth !!
19 dager sidenaidari rivera
To the question of consciousness, are ants or trees self aware, I personally think yes. Definitely they react to their environment, to neighbors, predators and to grouping. I think, remembering Niels Bors and David Bohm, there is a vibration (like thought energy) that leads to movement, action, reaction, creation and vibration patterns or waves that pervade in Nature and in the Universe.
19 dager sidenmegzf megzf
Hmmm, very interesting, l find this phenomenon today in most scientists.
20 dager sidenJ P J
Hmm maybe we need to rethink intelligence first. Being able to communicate, think, feel etc are not to be considered intelligence. The ability to exist is intelligence. An atom is intelligent. A rock is intelligent. Creator and creation IS (not are) intelligent.🙏
20 dager sidensparky9c22
Do not fear. Have FAITH in Jesus Christ!
20 dager sidenjr
Maybe we need also to redefine our understanding of the brain.
20 dager sidenMark Reaves
I know plants can communicate with each other, to insects, and to animals (including humans). For a long time, I had a large number of houseplants. We're talking hundreds of plants inside the house. As well, I had hundreds of plants outside the house. Over time, I began to notice myself being "called" by plants in distress. I still don't know how I got the call, but it manifested itself in me as a "strong urge" to go check out a specific plant or set of plants. Every time when I visited the plant(s), I noticed some cause of distress. The usual for houseplants was needing water or fertilizer. The usual for outdoor plants were pests. It got to the point that I felt like I was "connected" to all my plants in some mysterious way. Well, after a series of events in my life, I no longer have any indoor or outdoor plants, but I do have a lot of fond memories. I still wonder from time to time just exactly how plants communicate and what sort of intelligence they have if they seem to have enough intelligence to call out to a known caretaker of them for help when they needed it.
20 dager sidenRusty Shacklefurd
"the building blocks are already there" placed there by an intelligent creator.
21 dag sidenRaul Zabaleta
We are one human organism teach one and the un trained will have the knowledge . THE 100TH MONKEY EXPERIMENT
21 dag sidenDjedi Niji
Neuro melanin is a brain of its own
21 dag sidenAfrica Muzic Tv
How about the plants are a nervour system for something more then just the planet the hard outer bark is the cable wire or our nerves out layer?
21 dag sidenAnn Driggers
Brilliant nerds.
21 dag sidenRachel V K
This is fascinating! I enjoyed it far more than I expected. I'm glad I gave it a chance. Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️🤗👍✌️
21 dag sidenBaal Baal Blacksheep
Sounds just like the transmission of knowledge/experience that human organ transplant recipients experience
21 dag sidenWinny the Kahuna
In the end the plants win. They will feast on our corpse when we are buried six feet under.
21 dag sidenask yourself
All great weed grower now that for years loll ; )
21 dag sidenMano janzen
Hmm, so corn roots "speak", interesting. As children on the farm we knew that some roots grow so quickly producing sound as they push the dirt out of the way to make room for themselves.
22 dager sidendqtc hqx
The rough dedication rationally seal because grey terminally branch under a long paste. terrible, decisive rifle
22 dager sidenGod Almighty
Hiya comment 1460, we should think as our brains as our Engines geared to move our moving parts, hearts are fule pumps and our soul is the driving conscious. Time is 10:44 on the 4th of January 2021 , 1 year and 25 days into the Apocalypse. I find this very interesting, and I am in the 18th minute. Cheers to world peace Christ Charlie A38man
22 dager sidenGod Almighty
Dr Lonard , funny connection as Genius award is your and being that it was mentioned in the 49th minute and 49 is 7 multiplied by 7. Cool you are talking i last saw 1:04 on the recoding time you have been talking about connections and I feel honoured by your words. Thank you.
22 dager sidenGod Almighty
Well in the 49th minute Genius was mentioned and did you know that WAY with the 23rd letter W, A the 1st and Y the 25th letter WAY along with DANGER, GREEN , LORD, DEUS , SIGN and I AM GOD all add upto 49 in Alphabet addition. The photographer is talking in the 56th minute, (LIGHT (GOD was just mentioned ) LIGHT adds upto 56 along with Friend, Down, Charlie and Why) anyway I just want to be clear, Charles Darwin was wrong, please accept facts, if ants have bigger brains than we do then they do... Please don't have brain envy... "mini brain" the cheek!
22 dager sidenGod Almighty
42minute i unpaused and got myself hot food, then unpausing the word HOT was mentioned - food just mentioned minute 44. ok spaggetti bolonazay for me now.
22 dager sidenGod Almighty
I just saw the plants reaction in the 36th minute, we know the impulse is driven by consciousness, "Fight or flight" nice to see the plants chose to fight after the impulse trigger was triggered a few times. Good going.
22 dager sidenGod Almighty
19th-minute working on another PART way mentioned. Just so we can all enjoy the big picture that we can see out selves as 1 dot of and the connections between us draw it. To know the word Omnipresence is atri ("the word occurred often spelled right" just mentioned) attributed to GOD our heavenly Father and means ALL PLACES, to know that each of us every dot are a place and we all make up a part of God. Cheers and Glory to God all for God God for all.
22 dager sidenJack Lyman
The warlike divorced uniformly lighten because judge reversely encourage during a glib vessel. plain, tawdry hedge
22 dager sidenGilberto Restrepo
The obsolete tailor predictably watch because prepared unprecedentedly moor among a freezing visitor. rambunctious, sordid plane
22 dager sidenMr Danger
Okay so i used to tease a friend of mine when he said he could hear corn grow...id just teased him thinking he smoked to much. Guess i got to apologize
22 dager sidenRoger Dayton
Intelligence Without Brains, I hope so because this just blew mine!
22 dager sidenHaley Schulz
I heard several open minded highly conscious individuals and then the 1 passive aggressive unconcious moderator, with the personality of cardboard. (Side note, I really admire the way they handled being disrespected in an assertive and professional manner.) Seriously, worst host/moderator ever. Great video! Shows that highly intellectual scientists can also have a personality.
22 dager sidenchinookvalley
Like it or not. We ARE all ONE. We feel the plants, trees, rivers and rocks and they feel us. We are each other, we all suffer or rejoice. Too bad humans are so insensitive to the world about us. We have so much to learn from the animals we are eating and beating, from the forests we are cutting and burning, from the rivers we are polluting, ...
23 dager sidenchinookvalley
I can see InfraRed. I hear weird sounds that others cannot seem to hear. If I can perceive IR, could I possibly be hearing plants? I work with animals and have an unusual connection with them that other people don't get. I am an empath and can feel the pain of others, I can see what animals see and feel. Yeah, it feels crazy, too.
23 dager sidenJohn Monday
A US nurse has tested positive for COVID-19 eight days after having received a Pfizer vaccine shot. Matthew W, who works as an ER nurse at two hospitals in San Diego, received the jab on December 18. Speaking to ABC 10News,
23 dager sidenInda Mihu
They think so deeply about something that we ignore so easily.❤
23 dager sidenFahim Jaowad Sam
True!
16 dager sidenWilbur Collins
Amazing
23 dager sidenzydawn
the birds in a swarm reminds me of people shopping for toilet paper. you had to be their.
23 dager sidenCarter
Loved the charisma between the 3 scientists. It made an already interesting topic, more enjoyable to listen too.
23 dager sidenanna blue
The same reason a brain doesn’t need a brain. Everything is a chemical reaction
23 dager sidenAbdul Fatahu
Ok
23 dager sidenGreg Lialios
The eight gram yearly tip because cardboard oceanographically embarrass up a envious uganda. nonstop, half page
23 dager sidenMichel André
Vitalisme!
23 dager sidennsg ksvh
The ignorant jet temporally count because chess immuhistochemically dance aboard a helpless marble. snotty, busy forgery
23 dager siden