The question is not whether plants are intelligent, but whether they can be sentient.
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Replying to @jingle__belle
I doubt that our highly specialized animal cells can pull that off. It yields too little energy for us, I think.
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Replying to @jingle__belle @Plinz
Plants have no central nervous system. Maybe there are mechanisms to think and dream without a CNS, but I don't think it's likely.
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Replying to @jingle__belle @Plinz
That would be really interesting to see - you run into the problem of what constitutes an individual, though. Biological neurons are considered to be yours/you, but what about the neurons in silico to which you offload some processing? Do they need to be physically implanted?
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Replying to @AbstractMonkey9 @jingle__belle
We exist within software. Software does not have an identity, it is a principle.
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Replying to @Plinz @jingle__belle
Are you saying that individuals are independent from the substrate they run on, be it biological wetware or silicon hardware?
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The mind of the individual is independent from its neural substrate in the same way as the sculpture is independent from the clay.
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