pea intelligence

Michael Marder writes about it, HERE.

The most interesting point of the article is the notion that there may be different cognitive levels for different types of plants. One of the least credible aspects of all subject-oriented philosophies is their need for a magical jump from the non-human to the human, as though the human (along with perhaps a few smart animals) differed infinitely in kind from all else, and as if all non-intelligent life were of the same degree of non-intelligence.

The other interesting point of the article is the phrase “hard scientific evidence.” Real science has never had much to do with the sort of rigid scientism defended by certain bullying philosophers of science whose main point in life often seems to be telling other people to shut up. That’s not the spirit we find in the Bohrs and the Einsteins.