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On Being · July 18, 2024 · 55m
Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants (re-release)
Classic re-release. Robin Wall Kimmerer — botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation — on moss, reciprocity, and the intelligence of plants. Indigenous knowledge and Western science as complementary ways of knowing.
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Kimmerer: Western science's default interpretation of plant behavior is mechanical. The most generous interpretation — that plants have their own form of intelligence — opens scientific questions that reductive approaches miss.
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Kimmerer: ecosystems function through reciprocity — every organism gives and receives. This is the gut-brain axis scaled up: just as your gut bacteria and brain form a mutual exchange, every ecosystem depends on mutual exchange between species.
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