I have to say I'm disappointed in your reply. Neurons only occur in animals, and the concept of neural signaling is not directly analogous to plant signaling in

I have to say I'm disappointed in your reply. Neurons only occur in animals, and the concept of neural signaling is not directly analogous to plant signaling in communities. Plants have a much wider vocabulary than electrical activation. I appreciate that you're trying to stick to astrophysics and the numbers one through three, but you have failed to engage with the "language of animacy" concept, which makes this sort of a pointless reply. In addition, "it's not clear that the language itself informs the concept" -- yes, that's the point of there being a hypothesis, and that's the point of this discussion. I don't propose that the truths of astrophysics are going to be different in Blackfoot. I do propose that languages carry fundamental values and concerns of societies. These values and concerns of course influence scientific inquiry. Now, it may be that language, choices regarding directions of research, and approaches to scientific inquiry are all just results of underlying drivers, but that's the interesting part of the discussion.