An interesting debate for us mind-in-lifers: Plants Neither Possess nor Require Consciousnesshttps://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-1385(19)30126-8#.XR0wGJsl0QF.twitter …
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Replying to @evantthompson
Started reading the article.... do the authors ever define “consciousness” anywhere? Surely we are still capable of making the distinctions that originated with Plato and Aristotle between growing, desiring, and thinking that roughly speaking apply to plants, animals, and humans?
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Replying to @ThouArtThat @evantthompson
These are different shades of “consciousness,” perhaps? Unless these authors define “consciousness” as rational self-awareness or something... Then I’d agree with them. Plants don’t have it.
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Replying to @ThouArtThat @evantthompson
On the other hand, trees and mushrooms have evolved pretty complex underground communication networks. Plant brains are not individualized like animals, not on the surface starring us in the face.
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This is why I think the issue should be about sentience in the minimal sense of the feeling of being alive.
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