Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world to science@lemmy.world · 1 month agoPlants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Nowwww.sciencealert.comexternal-linkmessage-square221fedilinkarrow-up1364arrow-down150
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minus-squareheraplemlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·edit-21 month agoWhat? The fact that plants physically react to being cut has absolutely no bearing on whether they have conscious experience.
minus-squareJeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 month agoWell, not in any way that we can relate to anyway. But that was the same with animals much earlier.
minus-squareheraplemlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoHow much earlier are we talking? I bet if you asked prehistoric hunter-gatherers whether they thought animals experienced pain, they woulds say yes. The idea that animals were automata comes from Descartes.
What? The fact that plants physically react to being cut has absolutely no bearing on whether they have conscious experience.
Well, not in any way that we can relate to anyway. But that was the same with animals much earlier.
How much earlier are we talking? I bet if you asked prehistoric hunter-gatherers whether they thought animals experienced pain, they woulds say yes. The idea that animals were automata comes from Descartes.