"feel, react to their environment", if that's your standard for sentience, no more @eigenrobot burgers for you
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Replying to @androgynandre
this is what sentience means. you may be confusing it with sapience, which is a more demanding requirement.
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Replying to @androgynandre
having the kind of mind that a human has. a conscious mind, with self-reflection.
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Replying to @danlistensto
alright, I'm used to seeing sentience mean ~"having subjective experience/awareness" sense of consciousness.
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I didn't see the recent stuff on plant communication suggest they have sufficiently similar neural infrastructure to humans to give credence to the claim that they're sentient in that sense
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Replying to @androgynandre
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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Replying to @danlistensto
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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I think I had a dream about you last night. We were in a park and started walking up a hill that kept getting steeper until we were climbing and had to punch our fingers into the land, and somehow it got so steep that the land curled towards us at the top. You threw yourself over
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to the top, but I couldn't hang on and fell down. Afterwards, around the bottom, maybe near a shop and a lot, I think some people tried to mug me (inspired by Better Call Saul, I'd guess).
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