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 2 days 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 1 day ago
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.