Workshop – 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. This phenomenon remains largely unexplored within SCIoI’s research landscape.

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