i mean at a certain point you gotta make an obvious comparison and define limits. if ants or lowly insects are bad to eat, is a fungus on the same level of intelligence as one?
plants for sure do take in and process information, and perform some computations, but yeah i think the key thing is whether or not their way of processing information results in an experience of being alive, and i don't think it does. while i think the set of possible experiences is much more diverse than the subset that looks like our own and has familiar elements like "a sense of self" or "a sense of the present moment" i still find it unlikely that plants experience much of anything. i just don't think they have enough interconnectivity. maybe a mycorrhizal network joining a bunch of plants would get there.
It really depends on how you define "process". Plants arguably receive and process information. I wouldn't call that intelligence though.
i mean at a certain point you gotta make an obvious comparison and define limits. if ants or lowly insects are bad to eat, is a fungus on the same level of intelligence as one?
They aren't bad to eat, besides maybe not tasting great.
some feel more strongly about it
ive eaten locusts before and quite enjoyed it
plants for sure do take in and process information, and perform some computations, but yeah i think the key thing is whether or not their way of processing information results in an experience of being alive, and i don't think it does. while i think the set of possible experiences is much more diverse than the subset that looks like our own and has familiar elements like "a sense of self" or "a sense of the present moment" i still find it unlikely that plants experience much of anything. i just don't think they have enough interconnectivity. maybe a mycorrhizal network joining a bunch of plants would get there.
Yes, but insects might not either. It's a super fuzzy line that could be drawn just about anywhere.
yeah i think it's a continuous multidimensional spectrum