• strawberrysocial@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    How will we ever know for sure if plants have their own form of consciousness that doesn’t follow a list of requirements that’s based on animals, or can feel pain.

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      2 months ago

      But why do you think plants should have some own form of consciousness? All organism which have circulatory systems have generally similarly behaving circulatory systems. So why should consciousness be different?

      No, if an organism does not exhibit all properties of consciousness that we see in all other organisms, then it’s not conscious