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It's also entirely implausible, from an evolutionary perspective, that plants should have developed the capacity to feel pain on a scale similar to other organi
by FiberBundle 5y ago
It's also entirely implausible, from an evolutionary perspective, that plants should have developed the capacity to feel pain on a scale similar to other organisms given that they haven't developed the ability to move away from situations that might cause them pain (pain being a proxy for survival risk).
- philipswood 5y agoKeep in mind that instead of fight or flight plants have a range of internal chemical responses available to minimise damage and that this does make pain plausible: Videos of plants calcium signalling response to damage: https://news.wisc.edu/blazes-of-light-reveal-how-plants-signal-danger-long-distances/ https://news.wisc.edu/blazes-of-light-reveal-how-plants-sign... Plants responding to sounds of herbivore (dare we say “predator”) insects: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-014-2995-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-014-2995-6 Even plant “vision” is becoming more plausible: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/veggies-with-vision-do-plants-see-the-world-around-them/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/veggies-with-visi... You can find a lot more material in this vein. My point is that we are “animalists” and not very well predisposed to recognising the true nature of plants given how different they are to us.
- FiberBundle 5y agoThat's interesting, thanks for the links.