Plants are alive.
Skymt@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago offspec@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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 19 hours 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 23 hours 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 1 day ago
It should be the default assumption for anything mobile with senses.