Plant Philosophy and Interpretation: Making Sense of Contemporary Plant Intelligence Debates

Plant biologists widely accept plants demonstrate capacities for intelligence. However, they disagree over the interpretive, ethical and nomenclatural questions arising from these findings: how to frame issue signify implications. Through trope of 'plant neurobiology' describing plant root systems as analogous animal brains nervous systems, intelligence is mobilised raise status plants. In doing so, however, neurobiology accepts an anthropocentric moral extensionist framework requiring anthropomorphically meet standards be deserving respect. I argue this strategy misguided because extensionism erroneous ontological foundation ethics.