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There is a large section on this article that can mostly be deleted and or merged to the main article plant cognition. The section contains WP:OR and some irrelevant detail. Plant cognition/plant intelligence/plant neurobiology is not accepted by the majority of botanists or experts in plant physiology. It is it's own field and should not be confused with mainstream plant physiology. If you look closely, it is the same group of fringe academics who have been pushing for "plant cognition" for over 20 years.

I suggest that the content on "plant intelligence" on this article is merged to the main target article plant cognition. Psychologist Guy (talk) 01:39, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that this is the wrong page for that kind of material. But, as I have also said at the AfD for Plant perception (paranormal), that page would be a better location for that material, as well as for a lot of what is now in plant cognition. "Plant cognition" is an oxymoron. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:06, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the plant cognition article the wording is actually wrong, per sources the article should have been named "plant intelligence". There is only one source I have seen using "plant cognition", most use plant intelligence. I would suggest if there is a rename for plant cognition to rename it "plant intelligence" and put all of the content there. Unfortunately these articles are quite low traffic so it will probably be a while until we see any input from numerous editors. Psychologist Guy (talk) 23:59, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Plant intelligence also strikes me as an oxymoron (insert joke about Republican think tank). But I think there's some logic to following WP:COMMONNAME, so I'm probably OK with going that way. (I also think it would be less likely to mislead readers. A reader might wonder whether or not plants could actually have cognition, but readers will arrive here already pretty clear about what they think about whether or not plants are intelligent.) --Tryptofish (talk) 23:02, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with that. There is a lot of misleading terminology in this topic area sadly. Another is the misleading article plant memory; most of article basically consists of some discredited experiments from Monica Gagliano that were never replicated. Psychologist Guy (talk) 02:53, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]