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Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion

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75 points Bluestein | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 13:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.193s | 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. andrewflnr ◴[09 Jul 25 04:05 UTC] No.44506256[source]▶
You also can't confidently say "this is consciousness", as the top level comment did. Even less so when it's in an alleged form that's so different from our only confirmed case.