A review by maddox22
Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola

informative fast-paced

1.5

This book is full of sloppy reasoning, imprecision, disingenuous comments, and over-egged pudding. The authors rail against "judging" plants as "unintelligent" because they don't look or act like animals...and yet they spend the whole book trying to "prove" that plants have the same senses and abilities as animals. Far from providing a convincing argument that plants have intelligence, this ends up simply highlighting the absurdity and obvious holes in their reasoning. If they had simply started from the position that plants have a DIFFERENT KIND of existence and intelligence than animals, the book would have been far better.