About intelligent life, plants solve some real-world optimization problems far better than most people do because they have no illusions and their biases are highly reality-constrained.

And they have no brains at all. We are biased to cephalization and movement. Sessile and environmentally synesthetic with chromatophoric communication might be where it’s at and we are in fact an anomaly.

Also, my spellcheck needs the dictionary for people who memorized the dictionary when they were twelve. This one isn’t up to the task.