plants are sentient (they feel, they react to their environment) and have readily observable behavior that we would call "intelligent". they also communicate with each other. eating plants means maiming or killing sentient, intelligent beings. we are animals, this is our naturehttps://twitter.com/crawland1000/status/1040344247977865219 …
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alright, I'm used to seeing sentience mean ~"having subjective experience/awareness" sense of consciousness.
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this is also how I've always understood the term
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yes, that's the correct definition. "ability to feel and perceive. possessing a subjectivity." plants have this. they are not like rocks. sapience augments sentience with "wisdom", the ability to form judgments through premeditation.
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I do not think plants have a subjective experience in the sense that I possess one, which has nothing to do with judgment or premeditation
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I also don't think that my roomba has a subjective experience, although it clearly perceives
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I do think your roomba has a subjective experience, albeit a very limited and primitive one. it is sentient (barely) but not sapient.
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I am extremely dubious of ~epiphenomenal subjectivity
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why? how else would you define it?
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