Abstract
This paper will position the debate on plant intelligence as central to determining the efficacy of establishing a phytosemiotics proper. Memory, learning, and indexical salience may be operative features in determining plant intelligence and thus a ground for a more rigorous phytosemiotics. In order to move beyond the taxonomic boundary, we will consider phytosemiotics as receiving greater or lesser support from the Uexkull's concept of the Umwelt and Simondon's concept of metastability and transduction. It will be concluded that Simondon's ideas are more conducive to an explanation of emergence and becoming as useful tools in a future phytosemiotics, but that it resists any hylomorphist approach to understanding plant intelligence and behavior.
About the author
Kane Faucher (b. 1977) is an assistant professor at Western University 〈kfauche@uwo.ca〉. His research interests include information, metaphysics, semiotics, and critical theory. His publications include Metastasis and metastability: A Deleuzian approach to information (2013).
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