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Why would you use a human term like pain for the plant? Here's a biologist saying not all humans experience pain, if it's not even a universal human experience
by staticman2 5y ago
Why would you use a human term like pain for the plant?
Here's a biologist saying not all humans experience pain, if it's not even a universal human experience I don't know why you'd apply it to plants instead of a more technical term:
"Interviewer: Right, and isn't sensing damage, even without a neural system, essentially pain?
Daniel Chamovitz: The idea that damage has to be pain is mistaken. We feel pain because we have specific types of receptors called nociceptors which are programmed to respond to pain, not to touch. People can have genetic malfunctions where they feel pressure but never feel pain because they don't have pain receptors."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/xd74nd/we-asked-a-botanist-how-sure-science-is-that-plants-cant-feel-pain-302 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/xd7..."
A different article on the subject on plant pain has a biologist suggesting not to use human terms or animal terms:
""Plants can detect light, but I don’t think you can say plants can ‘see.’” The same goes for hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling. The terms we use to describe our own interface with the world don’t seem transferable to plants. They describe the contours of a human-centric reality, made possible by our animal anatomy.""
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/can-plants-feel-pain https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/can-plants-fee...
- calibas 5y ago"We feel pain because we have specific types of receptors called nociceptors which are programmed to respond to pain, not to touch." I assume he meant we feel pain as a response to damage. Saying we feel pain because of a response to pain makes no sense.