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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] heraplem@leminal.space 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What? The fact that plants physically react to being cut has absolutely no bearing on whether they have conscious experience.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, not in any way that we can relate to anyway. But that was the same with animals much earlier.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 1 points 5 days ago

How much earlier are we talking? I bet if you asked prehistoric hunter-gatherers whether they thought animals experienced pain, they woulds say yes. The idea that animals were automata comes from Descartes.