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The Sensory Biology of Plants (mander.xyz)
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[-] stray@pawb.social 12 points 6 days ago

Conscious: aware of the delineation between self and not self

I don't know whether this applies to plants and fungi, but it applies to just about every animal. There's a minimum basic sense of self required in distinguishing one's own movements from the approach of an attacker. Even earthworms react differently when they touch something vs when something touches them.

[-] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago

Yes most definitely, I’d imagine most animals are conscious.

In fact my definition of sapience means several animals like crows and parrots and rats are capable of sapience.

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