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Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion

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77 points Bluestein | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 13:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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spacephysics ◴[08 Jul 25 21:55 UTC] No.44504416[source]▶
At what point will we see that plants are conscious, just in a different manner than animals colloquially?
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bullfightonmars ◴[08 Jul 25 22:01 UTC] No.44504454[source]▶
Stimulus-response is not consciousness. There is nothing subjective about this mechanical and chemical response to injury.
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londons_explore ◴[08 Jul 25 22:14 UTC] No.44504520[source]▶
Science hasn't really understood consciousness.

If you don't understand consciousness, how to make it from first principles and how it works, then I don't think you can confidently say "this isn't conscious" about much.

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1. nemonemo ◴[08 Jul 25 23:58 UTC] No.44505094[source]▶
Wikipedia article about Consciousness opens with an interesting line: "Defining consciousness is challenging; about forty meanings are attributed to the term."

Perhaps "consciousness" is just a poor term to use in a scientific discussion.