Symposium – Plants As Model Systems for Distributed Intelligence?

The SCIoI Symposium  – Plants as Model Systems for Distributed Intelligence investigates plant systems as potential model organisms for distributed intelligence.

Plants respond adaptively and context-sensitively to environmental stimuli without a central nervous system—an exemplary case of non-neuronal, decentralized intelligence.

Rainer Hedrich (University of Würzburg) will present current insights into molecular information processing in plants. Pawel Romanczuk (SCIoI) will connect this biological perspective to SCIoI’s principle-based approach to understanding intelligence across systems. The concluding panel discussion will bring together experts from plant biology and behavioral science to explore future research directions.

10:00 – Opening
10:05 – Invited Talk: Rainer Hedrich (University of Würzburg)
“Plant Sensory Biology: Molecular Mechanisms of Information Management”
10:50 – SCIoI Talk: Pawel Romanczuk (HU Berlin, SCIoI)
“An Inclusive Principle-Based Approach to Intelligence”
11:35 – Break
12:00–13:00 – Panel Discussion with Audience Participation:
Rainer Hedrich, Kerstin Kaufmann, Pawel Romanczuk, Jens Krause