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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now(www.sciencealert.com)

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heraplem@leminal.space
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What? The fact that plants physically react to being cut has absolutely no bearing on whether they have conscious experience.

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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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Well, not in any way that we can relate to anyway. But that was the same with animals much earlier.

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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.

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