Meh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMTJDCouKwc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9bbxNV7QY8 -----Original Message----- From: John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, Sep 20, 2016 3:02 pm Subject: Re: Conversations Between Trees 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 <marc...@ulb.ac.be> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
