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Plant Intelligence Civilizations

Plant intelligence civilizations are one of the most controversial and fascinating models in alien-civilization theory: societies emerging not from animal-style brains and mobile bodies, but from rooted, photosynthetic, networked life. Drawing on plant signaling research, root communication studies, common-network debates, and the long history of speculative sentient flora, the model explores what civilization might look like when intelligence is slow, distributed, ecological, and inseparable from the landscape itself.