They also nurse their sick and keep stumps from dying - from The Secret Life of Trees, which also supports your comments
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Nikls94@lemmy.world 10 months agoPlants aren’t sentient by our understanding of sentience there’s evidence that they communicate via the mycelium network and give their own offspring more nutrients than others. That‘s the two I can think of without googling
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
FishFace@piefed.social 10 months ago
What other understanding of sentience would we fucking use?!
The mycelium network thing is way overblown - it allows some crude, undetected signals to pass.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I see it as a problem to solve - we know that signals pass because of the results, but we have yet to detect them
FishFace@piefed.social 10 months ago
I typo’d “undirected” if that affects anything.
My point is, people talk about this as if it’s the plants having a nice chat and a cup of tea and talking about politics. It isn’t - it’s more like a dog being able to smell some dog piss and understand something about the dog that pissed there.