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Plants can communicate and respond to touch. Does that mean they're intelligent?
- leed25d 2y agoI would say that if plants can respond in a way to touch, for instance, you might wonder wether or no they are _sentient_
- illuminant 2y agoLots of sentient people aren't treated very well. What would it do to humanity to discover plant life is as fascinating and worthy as Alien or Artificial life?
- illuminant 2y agoIntelligence is the removal of uncertainty, if it does not remove uncertainty (state resolve from ambiguity by disposition) it is not intelligent. Intelligence has this capacity. Yes, all life deals with uncertainty (soft core "entropy".) Intelligent design and behavior exists to some degree in every necessary part of it. Why is that such a big deal? We don't care about random intelligent people, or animals, why is life's fundamental strategy challenge us? Life feeds upon life. All we can do to not be savages is have a civilizing accord.