Plants are alive.
Skymt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What is this medieval level of thinking?
It’s alive, of course it can feel pain. That is how living things avoid being dead things.
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago offspec@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And they react to stimulus, they probably have a perception of pain. They communicate with other plants and will support other plants if they are related, life is complicated. I’m still going to eat my greens.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s a leap between react and feel pain. Pain is a useful evolutionary trait that can help survive. For a plant which can’t react quickly “pain” doesn’t offer any value. Sure, they must have systems “know” there’s harm, but without a way to quickly react it’s detrimental.
M137@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago Pain isn’t some objective thing. You feel pain differently just within your own body, based on where and what kind of damage is being done. A plant reacting to damage is pain, just because it’s not the same as us doesn’t mean it isn’t pain. We know plants react to damage, and that’s what pain is, they even signal other nearby plants of danger.
dbtng@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago I don’t disagree with you, but there’s a body of research about plants’ reactions, and some of them certainly look more like pain than just accommodating to negative stimuli.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
It should be the default assumption for anything mobile with senses.