"Bees are sentient, minded beings, not flying toasters. Bees have minds of their own, they are capable of “extracting the logical structure of the world”...

But what about plants? Plants do not have brains, so much as act like them. Just being a plant, sending down roots in a branching structure and deploying leaves to gather a maximum amount of light, involves sensing a wide range of variables, calculating correct decisions, and then enacting and embodying them..."

"Amazonian people believe plants and animals have intentions, and shamans communicate with other species in visions and dreams, while Western science has tended to deny intention in nature and consider living beings as “automata”.

Over 2 decades I searched for common ground between science and indigenous knowledge, and in recent years found increasing scientific evidence that nature teems with intelligence. Now scientists show that single-celled slime molds solve mazes, brainless plants make correct decisions, and bees with brains the size of pinheads handle abstract concepts..

Western observers have come to see that we are nearly identical to many animals, eye for eye, brain for brain, gene for gene. Many behaviors once thought to be uniquely human turn out to be shared by other species. The zone of the specifically human, as determined by science, has been shrinking.."

~ Jeremy Narby

Jeremy Narby - Intelligence in Nature | Bioneers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGMV6IJy1Oc