Question: why do animals feel pain but plants don't?
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I know they don't have nervous systems. The question is why they ddnt need one. They do after all react to the environment. When giraffes eat acacia leaves they even release that info to other trees nearby with ethylene gas! This is pretty advanced, as is the 'root internet'
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I think pain is only adaptive for organisms that can react physically fast by moving away, so muscles and mobility. It has no adaptive value if you’re just going to sit there

