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[–] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is why when people laugh at me for saying things like trees have concsiousness, and are kinda racist, I dont care. Science needs to catch up to intuition sometimes and Im not good at math so Im not going to be able to prove that tree's have a rudimentary form of cognition and intention.

Anyways, someone else already proved trees make decisions, cant remember where I read it but a big oak will feed baby oaks via root contact, and will feed certain other trees too, but not as much, because it favours its own species.

[–] Dr_Satan@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Science needs descriptive language, repeatable experiments and people who enjoy putting them together.

The intersection between that and reality is actually quite miniscule.

[–] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago

I love your username, Dr_Satan

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8922-1 ;)

Happy to share the pdf. Quanta also has a bunch of articles on plant "cognition." They are very much living, aware beings.

[–] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, it kind of makes me sad. Is the fresh totatoe I eat alive when I bite it?

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Growing things are alive, that's how they grow.

If it makes you feel better, many plants want their seeds to be eaten so they can be spread. Tomatoes are just a package around the seeds, the green stems are the plants 'body'. It's more like eating semen than eating a person.

[–] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago

I can get behind that