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Do You Believe Plants Have Feelings?
 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-08-09 01:52 [#00815240]
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Yay or nay?


 

offline WeaklingChild from Glasgow (United Kingdom) on 2003-08-09 01:58 [#00815242]
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nay


 

offline joakimlinden from Skövde (Sweden) on 2003-08-09 02:15 [#00815244]
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Yay


 

offline IronLung from the 91fwy in soCAL (United States) on 2003-08-09 02:16 [#00815245]
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nay


 

offline aron from saskatoon (Canada) on 2003-08-09 02:34 [#00815248]
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naaaay


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2003-08-09 02:37 [#00815251]
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nay... but i do think pants have feeling


 

offline 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... : )


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-09 03:26 [#00815263]
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I don't think so


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-08-09 09:03 [#00815346]
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i meant emotions. maybe.... they do.


 

offline 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.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-08-09 09:06 [#00815351]
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No they don't.


 

offline 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?


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-08-09 09:09 [#00815353]
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You just do, that's naturre.


 

offline hobbes from age on 2003-08-09 09:12 [#00815357]
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thoses climbing plants must have senses at least.


 

offline hobbes from age on 2003-08-09 09:13 [#00815358]
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the plants in your avatar give me feelings!


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.......


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline hobbes from age on 2003-08-09 09:22 [#00815367]
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yep...but i wasnt implying the contrary sir!!


 

offline 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!!


 

offline 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..?


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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


 

offline hobbes from age on 2003-08-09 09:35 [#00815375]
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and yes qrter, that doesnt necesseraly mean they think......


 

offline 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


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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


 

offline MrTenzin from The Concrete Jungle (United States) on 2003-08-09 09:43 [#00815380]
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yay


 

offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2003-08-09 10:01 [#00815383]
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yes

sorry

yay


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline Rambling Madman from the future (United Kingdom) on 2003-08-09 10:32 [#00815397]
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Your not sure?....Are you sure?


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2003-08-09 10:37 [#00815399]
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Around eleventeen percent sure.


 

offline mimi on 2003-08-09 10:37 [#00815400]
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duhhh havent you guys seen fern gulley?


 

offline 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 :)


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2003-08-09 10:55 [#00815412]
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If plants had felings.... what would pot be feeling?


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2003-08-09 10:57 [#00815415]
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Probably:

"Fucking stop smoking me. It hurts."


 

offline Smyrma from Beloit, WI (United States) on 2003-08-09 10:59 [#00815416]
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negatory


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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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