What Michael Pollan has said about Plant intelligence
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 28, 2026
Michael Pollan, Journalist and author of How to Change Your Mind, has been quoted on Plant intelligence 2 times in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on September 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Pollan cites research showing corn roots can solve a maze to reach fertilizer, which he considers a form of problem-solving intelligence.
“You can give it a maze and put some fertilizer, some ammonium nitrate in one corner of it, and the roots will find the fastest path to that ammonium nitrate”
Huberman Lab: What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 11:31
Pollan argues that domesticated plants like corn spread by evolving to satisfy human desires.
“So corn came to dominate the landscape in much of the world because it figured out what we wanted from it”
Huberman Lab: What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 22:26
Episodes
What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael PollanHuberman Lab · Sep 28, 2026 · 2 h 3 min
Andrew Huberman and author Michael Pollan discuss consciousness, plant intelligence, the microbiome, psychedelics, food politics and Pollan's experiment quitting caffeine.
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