Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed
What is intelligence anyways? We tend to define it based on ours. But how about collective intelligence? Other forms of intelligence?More specifically, there are two things that bother me with the way we usually look at intelligence: time scale, and individuality.To assess intelligence, we often look at individuals, not at the group. And we tend to do it on our own time scales. But I wouldn't be surprised if the "individual" you have to assess is the ant colony, not the ants themselves. And who is to say that rocks aren't smart? Have you observed them over hundreds of millennia? (I'm just kidding about the last one, though the question is still theoretically valid).