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I'm surprised your comment is being downvoted. There was an article shared on HN last year and suggesting plants are more aware than what we typically give cred
by sysbin 6y ago
I'm surprised your comment is being downvoted. There was an article shared on HN last year and suggesting plants are more aware than what we typically give credit to them. I also don't think its completely out there to assume humanity won't be modifying how the human body consumes energy.
- jamil7 6y agoIt's being downvoted because it doesn't really make sense. Plants lack a central nervous system, so vegans tend to draw the line somewhere there. Regardless if we did find out that plants somehow where conscious and could feel pain we need to feed animals a huge amount of plant matter in order for us to eat them. If vegans are trying to minimise harm done then it'd still make sense to eat them directly than eat animals given there is no alternative.
- sfj 6y agoBut what if the plants we like to eat are more conscious than the plants that animals like to eat? Or even more conscious than the animals themselves? How do we really know? What if there is a God in every peanut?
- jamil7 6y agoWell why base your actions on anything at all given that line of thinking? Although I do like the idea of a God in a peanut.
- sfj 6y agoI don't know, (and the whole reason I'm in this conversation was because I thought it was such an amusing concept I couldn't resist...)
- LaEc 6y agoHow much of your consciousness is grounded in sight, sound, taste, touch and smells? How many plants have eyes or ears or any kind of vivid sensory organ? Your argument lacks any kind of credulity.
- sfj 6y agoDo you have a way to measure consciousness? Would you object to killing a process with a sighup, that outputted “Ouch“ to the terminal?