RE: Evolution
March 1, 2018 at 12:39 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2018 at 12:40 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 1, 2018 at 12:31 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:There's nothing basic about their sensory response. They're the lords of organic chemistry. We'd be the relatively impoverished ones in that comparison, even as we're the ones that seem overflowing with the other thing, consciousness.(February 27, 2018 at 1:17 am)Khemikal Wrote: Sensation, entirely unlike consciousness...is ubiquitous, even among (especially among) sessile organisms, like plants.
So, you are making me channel my inner Thoreau here: why aren't plants conscious? I cannot confidently say they aren't. If pressed, I'd have to conclude that they have a "nub" of consciousness--aka a basic system of sensory response.
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