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 …
there may be a nervous-system analogous structure in plant root systems (particularly w.r.t. the symbiotic mycelial network that lives in the topsoil and connects different individual plant root systems). plants also communicate with each other via chemical signaling.
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right, plants may have sufficient infrastructure, I'm saying I didn't think there was much evidence for that in the recent buzz about plant communication and defense mechanisms... so the claim that they're sentient is a bit far-off
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sentience does not require or imply having an animal brain. sentience does not require or imply having a human-like mind.
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Meh, I know too little about this stuff to feel good about trying to persuade my (naive) sense of it. Maybe
@JacksonKernion can pitch in to give a credentialed opinion -
Not familiar with plant 'cognition' facts, but: 1 We can separate moral Q from Q over whether plants have minds/are conscious 2 Substantial disagreement on this, but my view: you become a candidate for consciousness if you have some form of info integration, centralized cognition
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