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You seem to use sentience as a synonym for human intelligence. Works, accomplishments, cooperation: if you don't see those things when you leave the city, you'r
by dmos62 7y ago
You seem to use sentience as a synonym for human intelligence. Works, accomplishments, cooperation: if you don't see those things when you leave the city, you're (forgive the hyperbole) blind.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoTrees compete viciously for sunlight, soil, water. They strangle one another, poison one another, create seeds that poison animals, and on and on. But its all consistent with vegetable blind optimization for their environment. As for social organization, works, cooperation - the fact that they grow in a group and are impressively big says nothing about their sentience.
- orthecreedence 7y agoYou're using human metrics for accomplishments and applying them to a completely difference class of organism ("lol do trees even have a fiat currency banking system?!"). I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but I'm saying you have no idea whether trees are sentient, how they experience the world, or what kind of intelligence they posess, and you cannot determine any of these qualities by comparing them to humans.
- tempguy9999 7y ago"Brainless fungi trade resources with plants like a stock market" "In soils across the world, fungi trade resources with the plants they colonise in a mutually beneficial relationship. But it turns out the fungi are savvy traders, taking advantage of their partners by shuttling goods to nutrient-starved areas where plants are willing to pay more than usual" (from https://www.newscientist.com/article/2205604-brainless-fungi-trade-resources-with-plants-like-a-stock-market/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2205604-brainless-fungi...) FYI. Sort of relevant.