Re: [APD] Philosophy and Plants

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

Any Cartesian worth his salt will tell you that the
automata isn't the thing that counts for the cognitive
abilities, it's the incorporeal substance (or spirit), or
as Ryle referred to it, the ghost in the machine.

Well, now, I think we've gotten close enough to religion
now, that anyting might break loose, anything but plant
talk ;-)

sh


--- Jerry Baker <jerry at bakerweb_biz> wrote:

> > 
> While it certainly is possible that plants have some sort
> of mechanism 
> that allows them to experience something we might call
> pain, I doubt it. 
> They do not have brains or nervous systems as other
> animals do.
>
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