The plants are acquiring information and making an independent change to their status with this information. Books do nothing with knowledge other than communicate it to others. Machines are unable to make independent changes to itself unless programmed to do so.
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kshade@lemmy.world 10 months agoI’d argue that knowledge is more than that, otherwise books or state machines could also be said to know things.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
epidemiologists agree: knowledge is a justified true belief.
socsa@piefed.social 10 months ago
This is why I don't eat books