Does vaccination imply memory?.. Does being warned by another’s volatile metabolites that a herbivore is attacking the population?
(Higher) plants are organized by very different principles than animals; it is a never-ending debate on what constitutes ‘identity’ in them. Without first deciding upon that, can one speak about learning? I don’t think they have it, but their patterns of predetermined answers can be very specific.
Is that really learning, or just reacting to stimuli in a fixed, predetermined pattern?
Does vaccination imply memory?.. Does being warned by another’s volatile metabolites that a herbivore is attacking the population?
(Higher) plants are organized by very different principles than animals; it is a never-ending debate on what constitutes ‘identity’ in them. Without first deciding upon that, can one speak about learning? I don’t think they have it, but their patterns of predetermined answers can be very specific.