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Paco CALVO (ES)
Scientist in Residency with Ciprian MUREŞAN
Biography Paco Calvo is a Professor of Philosophy of Science, and Principal Investigator of MINTLab (Minimal Intelligence Lab) at the University of Murcia (Spain). He specialized in the philosophy of cognitive science courtesy of a Fulbright scholarship in the late 1990s (University of California, San Diego), and received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow (UK) in 2000. His research interests range broadly within the cognitive sciences, with special emphasis on ecological psychology, embodied cognitive science, and plant intelligence. In his research at MINTLab, he studies the ecological basis of plant intelligence by conducting experimental studies at the intersection of plant neurobiology and ecological psychology. To do so, Paco uses behavioral methods in order to explore perception-action, and learning in plants, at the level of both roots and shoots. He is currently working on a book project: Planta Sapiens.
"We need to truly think out of the box, and that's something you cannot possibly do from your own "intellectual silo." If anything, the history of science has taught us that non-accumulative progress and serendipities play a much larger role than orthodox science may be willing to acknowledge. By teaming up, the arts and the sciences (both basic and applied) can at least try to ask different questions. That would be novel enough! and that's what I try to do at my lab, MINT Lab (the Minimal Intelligence Lab)." |
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