Plant Perception

I don't think plants feel pain. Pain is a feeling triggered in the nervous system, plants don't have a nervous system

 

They also don't have a brain to process the sensations.

 

Have any of ya'll read "Secret Life of Plants" or it's sequal?

 

No, how is it?

 

Heres A video on The Secret Life of Plants. It's an old video but I enjoyed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_X2Z9v8-6Q"]The Secret Life of Plants - Hi-res - YouTube

 

This video I have found kinda interesting also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t982ytY9w6E"]The Extrasensory perception of plants - YouTube

 

True, plants may not 'feel' 'pain' as the same concept we Humans have, but they still are able to detect stimuli and respond to it in variety of ways depending the type of plant.~

 

One of the first books on the subject both well writen and documented.

 

fascinating! I do hug trees on occasion.

 

Quite true.

And there's still a lot of live tissue in a cut cabbage.

And people's hair grows for days or weeks or months after their death, as I understand it.

When you boil a cabbage, it's common sense that the rapidly changing temperture is going to cause all sorts of expansion and friction between the layers, and if you delicately measure the movement without properly understanding what the heat's actually doing, it could be convulsing.

Even if it was convulsing, it does not mean that it feels pain. Venus fly traps fucking grab things and eat them, but I don't think they feel aggression in their murderous snaps, either.

 

The bottom line is, we think it would be evolutionary advantageous for them not to feel 'pain' but still be able to sense and respond to stimuli, this would make logical sense since they are one of the oldest living organisms that even predates animals that we know of.~ We think they do, but we don't really ever know, it's like reverse-engineering, you don't really know how something works or is intended to work unless you ask the designers themselves, but in this case we would be asking the plants themselves, but since we have not yet figured out how to effectively and reliably communicate with plants in a way we can understand, we must rely for now on a sort of outside-analyzation.~

 

^Obviously this

 

Ahh, I was assuming it was something about very hardy hair folicle cells, that didn't care what was going on around them or use very much nutrient.