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Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds
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Re: Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds
#12Cool study. Not too surprising though given how much time plants have had to optimize growth. Kind of similarly, you don't need to swallow high energy drinks to get the performance benefits. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/apr/15/high-energy-...
Could this not be the sublingual absorbtion of sugar rather than seemingly random "brain signals" the article suggests?
They did better drinking a placebo than swishing and spitting a beverage with real sugar, so no.
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That's complete nonsense, considering plants sense damage, but do not feel pain the way humans do. Animals are in large part conscious as they have a brain capable of consciousness. You cannot excuse your way out of eating animals just because plants also sense things. As for fungi, they may have a memory, but they are closer to bacteria than to plants.
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That's complete nonsense, considering plants sense damage, but do not feel pain the way humans do. Animals are in large part conscious as they have a brain capable of consciousness. You cannot excuse your way out of eating animals just because plants also sense things. As for fungi, they may have a memory, but they are closer to bacteria than to plants.
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That's complete nonsense, considering plants sense damage, but do not feel pain the way humans do. Animals are in large part conscious as they have a brain capable of consciousness. You cannot excuse your way out of eating animals just because plants also sense things. As for fungi, they may have a memory, but they are closer to bacteria than to plants.
> fungi, they may have a memory, but they are closer to bacteria than to plants
?????
Fungi are closer to animals than plants or bacteria
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's complete nonsense, considering plants sense damage, but do not feel pain the way humans do. Animals are in large part conscious as they have a brain capable of consciousness. You cannot excuse your way out of eating animals just because plants also sense things. As for fungi, they may have a memory, but they are closer to bacteria than to plants.
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Why doesn't pain matter? It's almost the canonical example of a valenced state that practically any moral theory is tasked with making sense of on moral terms.
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Why doesn't pain matter? It's almost the canonical example of a valenced state that practically any moral theory is tasked with making sense of on moral terms.
It's just neural impulses. So what. Why should we care? Plants have different but equivalent mechanisms.
Moral theory is bullshit. It's just made up.
Re: Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds
#18I would frame this completely differently: plants evolved around sensing the low level vibration created by rain as a signaling technique for the timing of sprouting.
:shrug: Makes sense to me and doesn't try to turn this into some baffling mystery.
Re: Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's complete nonsense, considering plants sense damage, but do not feel pain the way humans do. Animals are in large part conscious as they have a brain capable of consciousness. You cannot excuse your way out of eating animals just because plants also sense things. As for fungi, they may have a memory, but they are closer to bacteria than to plants.
> fungi, they may have a memory, but they are closer to bacteria than to plants ????? Fungi are closer to animals than plants or bacteria
I mean only from a pain and consciousness pov.
Re: Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds
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Why doesn't pain matter? It's almost the canonical example of a valenced state that practically any moral theory is tasked with making sense of on moral terms.
It's just neural impulses. So what. Why should we care? Plants have different but equivalent mechanisms. Moral theory is bullshit. It's just made up.
You are not making any sense, and literally won't understand if you never got beat-up physically in life, perhaps as a kid, and preferably more than once. One has to experience pain first-hand to empathize with it. You must have lived an extremely sheltered life for this to not happen to you, and so you don't understand. Your nihilism doesn't relate with people.
Yes, plants react functionally to damage, but in no way has any shred of consciousness been demonstrated in plants. You are just out to seek any excuse necessary to kill animals and perhaps humans too, with no difference.