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Can plants think?

Do they make plans? Do they talk to one another? Believe it or not,

these are questions that scientists are asking quite seriously, and it's starting to look like the

answer might be yes. For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman. I'm joined today by the author of a new book on the surprising science of plant behavior.

Would you mind introducing yourself? I'm Zoe Schlanger. I'm a climate reporter at the Atlantic.

And about five years ago, I started researching the world of plant intelligence research,

which is really plant behavior research with a small cluster of botanists who are trying to push

forward the idea that what we're seeing plants be able to do is, in fact,

signs of intelligence and possibly even consciousness. So I wrote a book called The Light Eaters

that came out very recently. And it's all about these incredible findings and what they might mean

for our understanding of non-human minds. Zoe, thanks so much for sitting down to chat.

I'm really looking forward to talking about the book. It's so great to be here. So what initially drew you to writing about

plants? Well, like I said, I'm a climate reporter and about five years ago was feeling really

burnt out, as you can imagine. I know what that's like. Exactly. Covering wildfires and melting sea ice becomes really depressing.

And I was feeling quite numb and detached from the material and decided I needed to go seek

out something that felt hopeful or awesome in the literal sense.

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