A simple Hopfield-like cellular network model of plant intelligence.
We introduce a simple Hopfield-like cellular-network model to explain a kind of "intelligence" in plants (Trewavas, 2002), especially, the capacity of plants to act as a memory device. Following earlier observations by Indian scientist J.C. Bose (1923), we regard the plant as a network in which each of the elements is connected via negative interactions. We investigate properties of the model by statistical mechanics.
Inoue
Jun-ichi
J
Complex Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 060-0814, Japan. j_inoue@complex.eng.hokudai.ac.jp
D007360:Intelligence / Q000502:physiology*; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D010944:Plants