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REFLEX
from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-08-09 01:52 [#00815240]
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Yay or nay?
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WeaklingChild
from Glasgow (United Kingdom) on 2003-08-09 01:58 [#00815242]
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nay
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joakimlinden
from Skövde (Sweden) on 2003-08-09 02:15 [#00815244]
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Yay
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IronLung
from the 91fwy in soCAL (United States) on 2003-08-09 02:16 [#00815245]
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nay
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aron
from saskatoon (Canada) on 2003-08-09 02:34 [#00815248]
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naaaay
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JAroen
from the pineal gland on 2003-08-09 02:37 [#00815251]
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nay... but i do think pants have feeling
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joakimlinden
from Skövde (Sweden) on 2003-08-09 02:38 [#00815252]
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By feeling I suppose you mean "have the ability to feel sensations", not actual emotions... : )
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Refund
from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-09 03:26 [#00815263]
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I don't think so
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REFLEX
from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-08-09 09:03 [#00815346]
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i meant emotions. maybe.... they do.
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danbrusca
from Derbyshire (United Kingdom) on 2003-08-09 09:06 [#00815350]
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Plants feel fuck all, they have no nervous system.
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Anus_Presley
on 2003-08-09 09:06 [#00815351]
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No they don't.
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joakimlinden
from Skövde (Sweden) on 2003-08-09 09:08 [#00815352]
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Who says you have to have a mammal-like nervoussystem to feel?
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Anus_Presley
on 2003-08-09 09:09 [#00815353]
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You just do, that's naturre.
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hobbes
from age on 2003-08-09 09:12 [#00815357]
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thoses climbing plants must have senses at least.
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hobbes
from age on 2003-08-09 09:13 [#00815358]
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the plants in your avatar give me feelings!
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Anus_Presley
on 2003-08-09 09:14 [#00815359]
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But if things caused them pain they would have developed something to stop you walking along and cutting them down don't you think.
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catharsis
from Toronto (Canada) on 2003-08-09 09:15 [#00815361]
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I believe they "feel" but in a different way. They may not have a nervous system, but they have intelligent cells that carry out functions in response to external stimuli such as light, shadow and physical structures.
Music has been reported to have an effect on plants as well. While I'm sure it has to do with the frequency of sound waves, classical music appears to exert the greatest growth effect on plants.
Then.....there is the ever prevailing Force.......
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hobbes
from age on 2003-08-09 09:17 [#00815362]
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plant do react in a way, like those insect eating ones.
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joakimlinden
from Skövde (Sweden) on 2003-08-09 09:20 [#00815364]
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I agree with Catharsis, probably plants feel - some more than other perhaps - but they probably don't have any way of knowing that they feel, or sort of collect all that sensory input into one coherent stream of data which makes them aware of their surroundings - a sense of self.
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2003-08-09 09:21 [#00815366]
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yes, but that's a reflex - has nothing to do with consciousness or emotion.
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hobbes
from age on 2003-08-09 09:22 [#00815367]
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yep...but i wasnt implying the contrary sir!!
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hobbes
from age on 2003-08-09 09:22 [#00815368]
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just pointing things out thats all.... new team doyobi by the way guyz!!
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2003-08-09 09:25 [#00815369]
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you mean like cows and pigs have developed natural ways to fend us off..?
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BlatantEcho
from All over (United States) on 2003-08-09 09:26 [#00815370]
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i always figured plants felt some things. I mean, when you cut a tree down, somewhere something in that tree has to be going "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!"
other than that, I doubt they care too much.
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REFLEX
from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-08-09 09:29 [#00815371]
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yeah... now this is getting a bit more interesting! id like to think that they do have some sort of feelings, like they arent going to cry if you call them a name ofcourse, but like someone said, it probably kinda knows whats going on if you cut it down, or take a chunk out of it.
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hobbes
from age on 2003-08-09 09:33 [#00815374]
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they have the same kind of goals that mammals have. surviving and procreating....basically assuring a continuity
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hobbes
from age on 2003-08-09 09:35 [#00815375]
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and yes qrter, that doesnt necesseraly mean they think......
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hobbes
from age on 2003-08-09 09:37 [#00815376]
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its funny how some humans have a way with plants and growing them and some just dont, no matter how hard they try.....
plants loved my nan.... lol
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J Swift
from United Kingdom on 2003-08-09 09:39 [#00815377]
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I'll have to find out a bit more about this... but years and years ago, at college, I read about a study, where they hooked up a plant to some sort of electrical sensor equipment...
And it would register a responce when they did something like drop other plants into a pot of boiling water in another room... Or something like that! It's quite a well known experiment, but it's been a while, so I might have missed something out...
But yeah, in a way they do have feelings - It's hard to know how much is pure reflex action and how much could be some form of awareness - It may be that every living thing is aware on some level... Tough one though - There's no way to prove it - There's no way to prove that anyone is really aware though is there - All you know is that you're aware - Everyone else could just be walking meat.
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hobbes
from age on 2003-08-09 09:41 [#00815379]
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obviously my nan loved plants........thats what made a difference, but could they feel her love ?
what i mean is that 2 people could use the same soil and ferteliser and stuff....but the person with green hands as they say will have better results....why?
sorry for multiple posts in a row
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MrTenzin
from The Concrete Jungle (United States) on 2003-08-09 09:43 [#00815380]
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yay
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nobsmuggler
from silly mid-off on 2003-08-09 10:01 [#00815383]
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yes
sorry
yay
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Rambling Madman
from the future (United Kingdom) on 2003-08-09 10:11 [#00815389]
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Pants have nay feelings......just as well really.
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deepspace9mm
from filth on 2003-08-09 10:26 [#00815395]
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I really hope not, cos that'd suck for veggies like myself. I'd have to eat stones.
I've heard they have higher levels of "stress" hormones after being uprooted, so i think that might imply a HOLY FUCKING SHIT reaction, but i wouldn't say it made them sentient beings with feelings and emotions.
Pants, though, i'm not sure about.
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Rambling Madman
from the future (United Kingdom) on 2003-08-09 10:32 [#00815397]
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Your not sure?....Are you sure?
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deepspace9mm
from filth on 2003-08-09 10:37 [#00815399]
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Around eleventeen percent sure.
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mimi
on 2003-08-09 10:37 [#00815400]
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duhhh havent you guys seen fern gulley?
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jenf
from Toronto (Canada) on 2003-08-09 10:41 [#00815404]
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how do you define 'feelings', is the first question here :)
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joakimlinden
from Skövde (Sweden) on 2003-08-09 10:48 [#00815406]
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Stones... Doesn't they contain silicon? Some can conduct energy I think. It's been proposed in the exobiology field, where they try to figure out how lifeforms can look/be on other places than our earth, that silicon-based lifeforms could exist. Like an intelligent mountain or something like that.
I've read a novel about what could happen when all the stars have died out. When the temperature drops to almost absolute zero things become supraconductive. In the novel a person travels to the end of time and watches with amazement how things start to form outside his capsule - how everything around him starts to act like a huge brain...something like that. I don't remeber too well, it was a number of years ago that I read it but it seemed like a nice idea at the time.
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Morgoth
from Stella-town (Belgium) on 2003-08-09 10:54 [#00815410]
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Plants do not have any kind of central nervous system, hence don't have any feelings like ours.
Why they are reacting to certain inputs is quite the same as with some of our own mechanisms of reacting, just with different chemical substances.
For instance: they can sense the concentration of sucrose, which is an indication for the presence of sunlight (through the proces of photosynthesis) and then grow towards the place with most sunlight. So they sort of feel something.
But pain and emotions, I don't believe they feel that.
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virginpusher
from County Clare on 2003-08-09 10:55 [#00815412]
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If plants had felings.... what would pot be feeling?
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deepspace9mm
from filth on 2003-08-09 10:57 [#00815415]
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Probably:
"Fucking stop smoking me. It hurts."
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Smyrma
from Beloit, WI (United States) on 2003-08-09 10:59 [#00815416]
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negatory
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Oddioblender
from Fort Worth, TX (United States) on 2003-08-09 14:58 [#00815625]
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hmmm .... i don't know. let me go stomp down this flowerbush and ask it afterwards how it feels.
*stomp stomp crush smash*
hmmm.... is that it?
it didn't say shit. That's a no, I guess.
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mappatazee
from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2003-08-09 15:08 [#00815634]
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Pain is more complex than a reflex due to stimulus. Fish don't feel pain, their brains aren't complex enough. Plants don't feel sensation. As an example, get a local anesthetic in your arm effectively disabling the nerve going to your hand. Now, chop off your fingers.
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mappatazee
from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2003-08-09 15:10 [#00815637]
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"then grow towards the place with most sunlight. So they sort of feel something."
All that happens is the cells that are shaded release auxin which causes them to elongate. It's not so coordinated that the plant itself actually "senses"' or "feels" something.
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Anus_Presley
on 2003-08-09 15:15 [#00815640]
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Plants and trree etc... arre pointless anyway I mean all they arre arre living orrnaments. It's not like we need them so who carres.
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