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Conciousness and language in animals is a form of abstracted motor action planning*. If it turns out some plants are sentient (or even sapient) their "conscious
by superkuh 4y ago
Conciousness and language in animals is a form of abstracted motor action planning*. If it turns out some plants are sentient (or even sapient) their "consciousness" will likely be different enough to deserve a new word.
* see the book Rodolfo R Llinás wrote, "I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self". Llinás was the discoverer of the mechanism by which myelinated axons conduct action potentials among a dozen other fundemental neural processes or neuroscience techniques. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Llin%C3%A1s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Llin%C3%A1s
- edgyquant 4y agoLanguage is sure, but consciousness itself is a big [citation needed]. I also don’t think it needs a new word. If trees are aware of themselves and their surrounding then they are consciousness even if they aren’t sentient.