Plantness, Animalness, and Humanness: plant placement within animacy and adjacent scales

IF 1.4 3区 心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Frederick Curtis Lubbe, Kenny G. Castillo Alfonzo
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Abstract

Animacy is an important framework through which humans view and categorize the world, but many objects do not easily fit within this scale. Plants are unique because they are very familiar to humans, yet the features and traits relevant for placement within the animacy scale are generally poorly understood by the public. Animacy occurs at three levels, with the inherent attributes of the object (biology), how they are perceived (cognition), and how they are expressed in languages (linguistics). Animacy is dependent on qualification and perception as alive, mobile, and intentional. In the absence of visible movement, classification is dependent on featural attributes indicating mobility or placement in a group recognized as animate (animalness). Plants have complicated bodies whose forms and structures are frequently clear representations of their life history and function (plantness), more than many animals, yet these signs of movement and activity are rarely recognized. The animacy scale may be more closely based on human similarity (humanness) with humans as the peak of life, mobility, and intentionality. As humans, we can have an anthropocentric viewpoint, rendering plants as scenery or utility, or use anthropomorphic interaction to better understand and recognize the dynamic lives of plants. The goal of this review is to compare the current evidence on the placement of plants within animacy and adjacent scales with the biology and habit of land plants, to better understand human perception and behaviour, and work with this process to educate and inform people about the complex lives of plants.

植物性、动物性和人类性:植物在万物之灵和相邻尺度中的位置
灵性是人类观察世界和对世界进行分类的一个重要框架,但许多物体并不容易被纳入这一尺度。植物是独一无二的,因为它们对人类来说非常熟悉,但公众对植物在灵性尺度中的相关特征和特性却知之甚少。动物性体现在三个层面:物体的固有属性(生物学)、如何感知这些属性(认知)以及如何用语言表达这些属性(语言学)。动物性取决于作为有生命的、可移动的和有意为之的限定和感知。在没有可见运动的情况下,分类则取决于特征属性,这些特征属性表明其流动性或在一个被公认为有生命的群体中的位置(动物性)。植物的身体结构复杂,其形态和结构往往清晰地体现了它们的生活史和功能(植物性),这一点比许多动物都要强,但这些运动和活动的迹象却很少得到认可。万物有灵尺度可能更接近于人类的相似性(人类性),人类是生命、流动性和意向性的顶峰。作为人类,我们可以采取以人类为中心的观点,将植物视为风景或工具,也可以利用拟人化的互动来更好地理解和认识植物的动态生命。本综述的目的是将目前关于植物在灵性和相邻尺度中的位置的证据与陆生植物的生物学和习性进行比较,以更好地理解人类的感知和行为,并在此过程中开展教育工作,让人们了解植物的复杂生命。
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期刊介绍: The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour publishes original theoretical and methodological articles that examine the links between social structures and human agency embedded in behavioural practices. The Journal is truly unique in focusing first and foremost on social behaviour, over and above any disciplinary or local framing of such behaviour. In so doing, it embraces a range of theoretical orientations and, by requiring authors to write for a wide audience, the Journal is distinctively interdisciplinary and accessible to readers world-wide in the fields of psychology, sociology and philosophy.
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