(August 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm)Rhythm Wrote: If those plants pick up environmental stimuli that mimics a predator..they -are- threatened, and no..we don;t assume you need ears to hear....you might, we don't (just like we don;'t assume you need a brain to process information...we refer to analagous structures..just as Pollan did..without realizing that the two sentences contradict each other immediately). I like Pollan too, as an author.....sometimes I think he might owe me money for how often I've pimped his books on these boards....but he's taking artistic license in calling it terror. The thing to draw from plant behavior is not that they are "like us" in some significant way...but more accurately...that we probably aren't exactly as we describe -ourselves- to be.
Long story short....both Pollan and yourself have erected an altar to anthro-folly..which is becoming a common string in this thread.
Interesting take away!
I see human subjective emotions simply as different charge states and orientations. They are inherent in electromagnetism. We can do more with it in more detail (because we have more circuitry) than can plants or bugs which would have similar functions at rudimentary levels.
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
