The Light Eaters: How the Unseen Intelligence of Plants Shapes Our World — The System We Couldn't See
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Zoë Schlanger
This episode explores The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger as a systems-level analysis of how scientific assumptions, ecological systems, and decentralized intelligence influence perception, belief, and institutional understanding.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than isolated discoveries, the episode examines why distributed forms of intelligence remained culturally invisible for so long — and how ecological interdependence challenges human-centered models of cognition and…
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