06-14-2018, 10:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-14-2018, 10:24 AM by Determined.)
No offence, but this is another one of your retarded logical leaps.
Plants don't feel "pain" in the same sense we do, they lack a neurological system. Organisms with a neurological system can experience a spectrum of emotions (if you have a pet you'll have observed this) with pain being one of them.
What that article indicates is that plants can detect damage to their structures and then communicate this via chemical signals to other plants. This isn't anything ground breaking as its well established that plants have their own immune systems.
If you want to get really technical, pain is a signal that whatever stimuli is present and causing said pain is obviously a hazard to the well being of the organism experiencing it. Subsequently the organism reflexively adapts by moving away (recoiling) from the source. As plants can't physically move, evolving a neurological system would be extremely redundant. Nature tends to follow the path of least resistance (which is why you lose muscle mass if you stop working out - the body re appropriates those resources elsewhere). Nature is also extremely efficient at evolving towards the most optimal conformation to best suit it's environment.
When you put that all together; Lack of neurological system, redundancy of pain receptors for plants and the efficient process of evolution, you can see how the idea that plants feel "pain" is ludicrous.
Plants don't feel "pain" in the same sense we do, they lack a neurological system. Organisms with a neurological system can experience a spectrum of emotions (if you have a pet you'll have observed this) with pain being one of them.
What that article indicates is that plants can detect damage to their structures and then communicate this via chemical signals to other plants. This isn't anything ground breaking as its well established that plants have their own immune systems.
If you want to get really technical, pain is a signal that whatever stimuli is present and causing said pain is obviously a hazard to the well being of the organism experiencing it. Subsequently the organism reflexively adapts by moving away (recoiling) from the source. As plants can't physically move, evolving a neurological system would be extremely redundant. Nature tends to follow the path of least resistance (which is why you lose muscle mass if you stop working out - the body re appropriates those resources elsewhere). Nature is also extremely efficient at evolving towards the most optimal conformation to best suit it's environment.
When you put that all together; Lack of neurological system, redundancy of pain receptors for plants and the efficient process of evolution, you can see how the idea that plants feel "pain" is ludicrous.
