Dear Bruno, we are still in the anthropocentric/anthropomorphic failure to equate EVERYTHING with our humanbased experience. Organisms without brain-tissue do not exercise brain-functions as we THINK they do occur in our 'head' (guts?) and do not develop similar thoughts to us - the ways we try to understand our own thinking through neurons(?).
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 16 Sep 2016, at 23:11, Jason Resch wrote: > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3792036/Do-trees-brains.html > > > It is my feeling too, and there are many evidences for some form of > thought, and I read (where?) that even at the molecular level, there are > some biochemical similarity with animal's neuron at the extremity of some > roots. > > Now it is hard to conclude anything at this stage, but the idea is cute, > and, as I said sometimes, it is less ethically grave to attribute > consciousness wrongly than to dismiss consciousness wrongly. > > A tree, to another tree: ---- do you think animals can think? > --- What? No! they are too much agitated for that! > > > Bruno > > > Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
