links about scientific materialism and its shortcomings:
Alfred North Whitehead points out the implausibility of scientific materialism in Science And The Modern World (1925). Other quotes on this page are also relevant, such as those from Democritus and Lewontin (who explains that materialism isn't a finding of science, or a preference, but is rather a defining feature of it).
https://media.pluto.psy.uconn.edu/psycquotes.html
Thomas Nagel's precis of his book Mind And Cosmos in which he questions some very fundamental assumptions about the nature of the universe.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/the-core-of-mind-and-cosmos/
Excerpt from Out Of Our Heads by Alva Noe, from an introductory chapter of a book by one of the few philosophers to question the seemingly fundamental notion that the mind is the product of the brain. It's important to understand that he doesn't promote any supernatural alternative, but rather argues that the basic concept needs to be reconsidered.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780809016488/out-of-our-heads
links about plant intelligence and behavior:
Michael Pollan, The Intelligent Plant (The New Yorker, Dec 23, 2013
http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/the-intelligent-plant/
What Plants Talk About (PBS Nature, April 3, 2013
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1vz6pw
Carello, Vaz, Blau & Petrusz (2012). Unnerving Intelligence. Ecological Psychology, 24(3), 241-264.
http://media.pluto.psy.uconn.edu/Unnerving Intelligence.pdf
links about Gibson's "ecological approach" to psychology:
Here are two short excerpts about James Gibson's Ecological Psychology, written by people who don't actually agree with Gibson and his ecological view, but who are describing him and his work fairly objectively. It's difficult to sum up the approach in brief; the linked passages are decent outsider views, but they're still incomplete and fail to appreciate some subtleties and philosophical implications. Ecological psychology is an approach to problems of perception and other aspects of psychology that is very different from conventional mainstream approaches. Instead of looking at the mind as a kind of computer involved in the processing of information (which is what mainstream psychology assumes), it is concerned with how animals and people can directly detect information in the environment which will be sufficient to guide their actions. The phrase "directly detect" is why the approach is often referred to as "direct perception"; it implies that the information doesn't need to be processed at all, which is controversial to say the least, and which certainly flies in the face of many centuries of epistemology. (At the end of the excerpt is an example of what a conventional "INdirect perception" approach looks like, for comparison.) The term "ecological" refers to a view of the animal and its environment as an integrated and co-evolving whole, as opposed to the conventional approach which seems to view the animal as an arbitrary observer placed into an arbitrary context.
http://media.pluto.psy.uconn.edu/gibson.html
An excerpt from Beyond The Brain by Louise Barrett in which she offers an overview of Gibson's perspective.
http://media.pluto.psy.uconn.edu/barrett ch 6.pdf
UConn Psychology Department's Center For The Ecological Study Of Perception And Action (CESPA) is the world leader in developing and promoting Gibson's ideas and advancing research and theory in ecological psychology.