Electrome & Cognition Modes in Plants: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Eco-Sensitiveness of the World

Abstract

Recent studies on plant-environment and plant-human relationships reveal the need to reassess the
scales of perception, sensitiveness and cognition of living systems. The complexity of plant's emerging
behaviors in interaction with the environment is supported by the signature of the electrome and the
plant sensorium, a strong argument to establish the singularity of the living and weights its consequences
in evolutionary, ecological or socioeconomic terms. This paper highlights the cognitive value of access to
the experience of plants and its fundamentally mesological or ecoplastic nature, that is to say in direct
connection with a singular milieu. This dynamic coupling makes it possible to explain the co-construction of
an intelligible and sensible world without the use of a brain, principle that reframes the concept of intelligent
behavior while revealing both the frontiers in cognition and the strong transdisciplinary challenges of an
acute awareness of the man's fragility as of the planetary ecosystem at the era of the Antropocene.