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Shadow Fox wrote:I see, I think I understand whats what on this now.

Thanks for informing me.


Edit...add on for fun. PM if you wanna discuss it or whatever. Its just a silly video about plants being sentient what if kinda video etc.
Here is a video from one of my favorite youtubers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4itH7CRes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVOglGKA53s
Theses is interesting videos, i believe plants might(*edit) have some intelligence. I can see if plants being proven as sentient some people going for not eating anything what kill plant (fruits, seeds, leafs ect.) and not vegetables but it seem unlikely for me personally that it will be proven anytime in future.
There is documentary on plants intelligence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeX6ST7rexs
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kamitis wrote:Theses is interesting videos, i believe plants have some intelligence.
This is a complete misunderstanding of what intelligence is. Plants by nature have no intelligence whatsoever. Zero. None. They are not motile, and so have no use for that kind of information processing, nor means to accomplish it.

There are no scientists who claim this, and no experiments that have ever suggested it.

This myth comes from an ex-cop who hooked a lie detector up to a plant, without any controls or experimental procedure, and then decided that the plant was psychic.
He was a complete idiot.

Plant intelligence is a pseudoscience, up there with "Hollow Earth theory", or Electric Sun.
If you believe that, then... just stop.
kamitis wrote:I can see if plants being proven as sentient some people going for not eating anything what kill plant (fruits, seeds, leafs ect.) and not vegetables but it seem unlikely for me personally that it will be proven anytime in future.
It's not going to happen, ever, because it's not true.

Plants are not intelligent, and they are not sentient. Anything that says otherwise is bad journalism.

You can find documentaries on alien abduction, ghosts, and angels too- does that make them all true? No.

Are you this gullible?

Plant intelligence is not science. Never has been, and never will be.
kamitis wrote:Also there is some studies that water have memory,
WTF?

No, no there are not.

There are no such "studies", there never have been, and there never will be. Water does not have memory. Quantum physics PROVES that water does not have memory- there is nowhere to store that information, because mater is discrete at the quantum level.

If you apologize for even thinking that plants have intelligence and water has memory, and ask me nicely, I may explain it to you.

But you have to stop this, you're making yourself look like an idiot, and you're making vegans everywhere look bad when you buy into this nonsense.
kamitis wrote:there is lot things what human still don't understand about nature and will not understand for some long time.
There are some things we don't fully understand, but that isn't one of them.

Don't make the argument from ignorance fallacy.

We know enough to know that some things just are not true. The tiny gaps in our knowledge are not enough to drive super tankers like these through.
These concepts go against all science and observation. They are invented by lunatics and con-artists, and they are simply false.

Shadow Fox wrote: Its just a silly video about plants being sentient what if kinda video etc.
Here is a video from one of my favorite youtubers.
And you... see above.

The gray area for sentience is somewhere around worms. Plants are not even under consideration. No, they are not intelligent, and they are not sentient.

And water isn't intelligent or sentient either.
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No sure if you even watched @Shadow Fox videos and understand that them was very IF statement based and not giving any false proofs or arguments to hypothesis, or you was just ignorant? My video (scientific documentary) from other side was about plant "intelligence" and would explain you that i don't think plant "intelligence" in same way as humans intelligence, but you already know just posting answer without any preparation/research is easier.
kamitis wrote:Theses is interesting videos, i believe plants have some intelligence.
This is a complete misunderstanding of what intelligence is. Plants by nature have no intelligence whatsoever. Zero. None. They are not motile, and so have no use for that kind of information processing, nor means to accomplish it.

There are no scientists who claim this, and no experiments that have ever suggested it.

This myth comes from an ex-cop who hooked a lie detector up to a plant, without any controls or experimental procedure, and then decided that the plant was psychic.
He was a complete idiot

Plant intelligence is a pseudoscience, up there with "Hollow Earth theory", or Electric Sun.
If you believe that, then... just stop.
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Yeah we probably can say plants have no intelligence in way animals and humans have. I might not get it clean in my first post, was meaning they react to outside world more complex then most people think they do.
Obv i am not saying plants make complex chooses in same way animals/humans do but it not like they just stand + react in very basic way, they sleep, have memory about different things, communicate with other plants/insects using chemicals, defend themselves from insects or animal overpopulation ect.
No sure about your silly cop experiment,"Hollow Earth theory", or Electric Sun, never have hear of theses things. I already linked to one of science documentary's i watched lately on topic and there is more and more new coming out. It very easy to research things also without using videos because lately more research is published on topic.
Also there is no reason animal/human brain type being only type of intelligence out there, for example artificial computer intelligence we consider as intelligence even there is no animal/human type brain but just computer chips and parts. I see it same for plants, there no needed animal/human type brains for having some type intelligence. If we don't understand it yet don't mean it not exist especially when more and more research come out to support idea.
kamitis wrote:I can see if plants being proven as sentient some people going for not eating anything what kill plant (fruits, seeds, leafs ect.) and not vegetables but it seem unlikely for me personally that it will be proven anytime in future.
It's not going to happen, ever, because it's not true.

Plants are not intelligent, and they are not sentient. Anything that says otherwise is bad journalism.

You can find documentaries on alien abduction, ghosts, and angels too- does that make them all true? No.

Are you this gullible?

Plant intelligence is not science. Never has been, and never will be.
You are probably overreacting to IF statement. It same if statement as i would answer religion person "If there would come out real evidence to god existence some people would do x but some other would do y"
Obviously there is very slim to none chance plants is sentient (feeling same type pain as animals/humans) because no evidence of nerve system to be able experience same pain animals/humans experience.
If you apologize i would explain you what word IF means.
kamitis wrote:there is lot things what human still don't understand about nature and will not understand for some long time.

There are some things we don't fully understand, but that isn't one of them.

Don't make the argument from ignorance fallacy.

We know enough to know that some things just are not true. The tiny gaps in our knowledge are not enough to drive super tankers like these through.
These concepts go against all science and observation. They are invented by lunatics and con-artists, and they are simply false.
One was if statement. "Intelligence" and "memory" obviously should be understand differently in plants/water then in animals/humans.
And we still know very little about nature.

-*-*-*-

"In The Mind Of Plants" and "What Plants Talk About" i found very informative about plant intelligence philosophy.

P.s. Not sure how old are you but words like "WTF" and "Idiot" not create much respect in other eyes.
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So much stupid, so little time. This feels like whack-a-mole.

If you aren't a complete idiot, you'll read these immediately:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Water_memory
http://skepdic.com/plants.html

kamitis wrote: P.s. Not sure how old are you but words like "WTF" and "Idiot" not create much respect in other eyes.
I'm old enough to know an Idiot when I meet one. And you're being an idiot right now. Stop it.

Not only are you profoundly ignorant, you're arrogantly ignorant. I have tried to explain to you that these claims are based on bad journalism, and you refer yet to MORE bad journalism. These are not scientific claims.

Your absurd claims violate all known science - actual science, not bad journalism pop-science. I am well familiar with plant behavior - far more so than you are - and nothing of it resembles intelligence to anybody who has even the slightest notion of what intelligence actually is.
Yours is the same moronic bad logic of creationists, who assume that life must have been "intelligently designed" because it *looks* like what they consider to be the hallmarks of intelligence.

News-flash: Just because you're too stupid to understand how something works without intelligence, doesn't mean it's intelligent.

The worst part is that you cling to these bad pseudoscientific dogmas with a voracious fervor, singing songs of the vast unknown and how pathetic human knowledge is. Well, guess what, human knowledge is far from pathetic- only your grasp of it is.

Which is really a shame, because you're vegan, and it's moonbat idiocy like this that gives vegans a bad name and makes us look like a bunch of granola woos. You are harming animals with this bullshit, because you destroy the credibility of veganism (which is a rational movement) by association with your lunacy in the eyes of the public.

For an example of how this bullshit specifically undermines veganism, see: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Plant_rights

Learn the difference between actual science, and bad journalism, then apologize for your mistake, and maybe we can talk.

It's a shame, because you had a chance to really learn something here today, but you decided to stroke your own ego instead and pretend like you have the competence to argue with me on this topic rather than exploring the possibility that you were wrong.
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Thanks for the answers. The reason I asked was not that I'm interested in eating bugs, but because I've gotten this question before and my thought is that since they are also sentient it would not be right to exploit them, but on the other hand there are, as Brimstone wrote, advantages over the current farming system today. If people moved over to farming bugs instead of larger animals, I'd have less of a problem with that even if it is not in the direction of veganism.
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brimstoneSalad wrote:So much stupid, so little time. This feels like whack-a-mole.

If you aren't a complete idiot, you'll read these immediately:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Water_memory
http://skepdic.com/plants.html

kamitis wrote: P.s. Not sure how old are you but words like "WTF" and "Idiot" not create much respect in other eyes.
I'm old enough to know an Idiot when I meet one. And you're being an idiot right now. Stop it.

Not only are you profoundly ignorant, you're arrogantly ignorant. I have tried to explain to you that these claims are based on bad journalism, and you refer yet to MORE bad journalism. These are not scientific claims.

Your absurd claims violate all known science - actual science, not bad journalism pop-science. I am well familiar with plant behavior - far more so than you are - and nothing of it resembles intelligence to anybody who has even the slightest notion of what intelligence actually is.
Yours is the same moronic bad logic of creationists, who assume that life must have been "intelligently designed" because it *looks* like what they consider to be the hallmarks of intelligence.

News-flash: Just because you're too stupid to understand how something works without intelligence, doesn't mean it's intelligent.

The worst part is that you cling to these bad pseudoscientific dogmas with a voracious fervor, singing songs of the vast unknown and how pathetic human knowledge is. Well, guess what, human knowledge is far from pathetic- only your grasp of it is.

Which is really a shame, because you're vegan, and it's moonbat idiocy like this that gives vegans a bad name and makes us look like a bunch of granola woos. You are harming animals with this bullshit, because you destroy the credibility of veganism (which is a rational movement) by association with your lunacy in the eyes of the public.

For an example of how this bullshit specifically undermines veganism, see: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Plant_rights

Learn the difference between actual science, and bad journalism, then apologize for your mistake, and maybe we can talk.

It's a shame, because you had a chance to really learn something here today, but you decided to stroke your own ego instead and pretend like you have the competence to argue with me on this topic rather than exploring the possibility that you were wrong.
I am not saying and don't think that plants is intelligent but i am very open to opposite side arguments and research them.
I am not saying and don't think that water have memory but i am very open to opposite side arguments and research them.
I am not saying and don't think that plants should have right but i am very open to opposite side arguments and research them.
No idea from where you get intelligent design.

I am saying things how we see animals is changing, how we see plants is changing, how we see everything is changing. There is good chance that water can't hold any memory, there is good chance plants behave very automatic and there is some chance water can hold information, there is chance that plants don't behave fully automatic.
Thing what i am saying theses things is not absolute and there is coming out researches what challenge theses ideas, some very weak and some stronger, and we should not just ignore them to keep ourselves in comfort zone where you listen just your believes supporters and single definition of plant perception. I mean you are simply ignoring opposite side work and researches.

I already seen your wiki pages and understand today view on plants/water. But main point is that it today view is not in any way absolute and can be challenged and over time can be changed with enough evidence, if enough evidence never come it will stay same.

Not sure if using word "intelligent" in this discussion is right way to go. It seem we don't understand with it same thing.

Additionally i probably would see how plant work fully automatic and don't work fully automatic (what don't mean it should make choices or similar). I don't care as long as i am open to opposite side and don't take any side as absolute true and not changeable while you go nuts over someone saying that opposite side might be true. My original post ."Theses is interesting videos, i believe plants have some intelligence" probably should be understand like "Theses is interesting videos. I believe plants might have some intelligence (what not meant they can choose something or are awake about anything)." to explain people like you there is 2 different views on topics and you should not take 1 absolute true view point even when today science view support it. Word "intelligent" might be changed to different.

Your text "Your absurd claims violate all known science - actual science" seem you think science should not be questioned and tested, challenged and changed with enough evidence to new idea. We should never try violate/change/test today science view?

Please explain me:
Is this real science news/docs for example?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 123719.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbLeOKEEjEM
why yes or no?
When you can trust it and when not?
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kamitis wrote:"In The Mind Of Plants" and "What Plants Talk About" i found very informative about plant intelligence
I liked the first documentary, because it's interesting to see how plants live. The problem with these documentaries is that the narrator tells a story of plants as if they were animal-like. The way I see it (as a layman) is if a plant is better able to reproduce, if they create thorns, poisons, emits chemicals etc. and respond to sounds, chemicals, touch etc, we will see more of those plants, because that's simply how evolution works. Plant do not have to have any consciousness in order for that to happen.
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Anon0045 wrote:
kamitis wrote:"In The Mind Of Plants" and "What Plants Talk About" i found very informative about plant intelligence
I liked the first documentary, because it's interesting to see how plants live. The problem with these documentaries is that the narrator tells a story of plants as if they were animal-like. The way I see it (as a layman) is if a plant is better able to reproduce, if they create thorns, poisons, emits chemicals etc. and respond to sounds, chemicals, touch etc, we will see more of those plants, because that's simply how evolution works. Plant do not have to have any consciousness in order for that to happen.
Yeah i agree that theses documentaries at some points give viewers too much animal-like view what scare away most people in today society.
There is high chance plants isn't animal-like but it not strict fact what can't be changed as almost any thing what science/society support with enough evidence what support new idea.
Humans is most conscious, animals is some less conscious, plants have very minimal to very possible none conscious.
It more about how human specie see animals and plants in society, eating and using animals is definitely huge problem and how human see plants is very small to none problem.
Thing is that human specie is cancer to earth and all it living beings thinking they are very superior over other living beings and we should be open minded to new things what not support idea and see if there is enough evidence to support it not ignore all what coming out what challenge our today society view.
What difference between documentary who promote cow is different then society think right now or documentary who promote plant is different then society think right now? Both push some to human specie not think about themselves as that superior and think about animal/plant live.
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There's an expression that should be heeded carefully:

We should be open minded, but not so open minded that our brains fall out.

Kamitis is an extreme in not heeding this quote.
And he flaunts his "agnosticism" to science as if it were wisdom- while it is quite the opposite of wisdom.

Denying scientific fact, and pretending that we don't know things that we do know (things we have taken pains, for centuries, to build upon and discover) is the height of ignorant arrogance, and it's insulting to what humanity has accomplished.
kamitis wrote: I am not saying and don't think that water have memory but i am very open to opposite side arguments and research them.
And you're not saying that you think the Earth is flat, but you're very open to opposite side arguments and research on that.
And you're not saying that you think Jesus rode dinosaurs, but you're very open to opposite side arguments and research on that.
And you're not saying that you think Santa-clause can travel faster than the speed of light and see you when you're sleeping, but you're very open to opposite side arguments and research on that.

What you're really saying is that you're an idiot who can't understand that some things are so far from credible, we don't need to go around discussing them as if they are real possibilities- because they aren't.

And you don't understand that some things are do ridiculous, they deserve nothing short of ridicule.
kamitis wrote: I am saying things how we see animals is changing, how we see plants is changing, how we see everything is changing.
You're saying you don't understand the concept of science, that's what you're saying.

Science doesn't change in the way you think it does. Experiments done a hundred years ago are still valid today.

Science becomes more precise.

Newton wasn't wrong with his laws of motion. Einstein didn't come around and undermine any of Newton's experiments- Newton was and still is right about how matter and energy works within the bounds of his margins of error and reference frame. Einstein didn't undo any of that. He opened up something else entirely.

Conservation of momentum is STILL true.

Your ignorance of how science works is so profound, I don't even know how to dumb this down enough for you to understand it.

There are things that we understand to be false because it has been demonstrated to be so. There are also things that we understand to be necessarily false based on very well established theory- like evolutionary process- which has been overwhelmingly proved.

These things have not been undermined, are not being undermined, and will not be undermined by quacks doing pseudoscience in their basements.

kamitis wrote: There is good chance that water can't hold any memory,
No, there is not just "a good chance". It can not. Plain and simple. This is not some great and unknown question in science. Water is VERY well understood.

That's like saying "There's a good chance that 1+1=2, but some day we might find out that it doesn't! Be open minded!"

But seeing as how big of a mindless idiot you are, you probably even think you should be open minded about 1+1 not equaling 2. So, even the most obvious analogies will probably not work on you.

Being obtuse to that degree makes you represent the height of closed-mindedness (fundamentally closed to knowledge of any meaningful kind), not open-mindedness.
kamitis wrote: there is good chance plants behave very automatic and there is some chance water can hold information, there is chance that plants don't behave fully automatic.
No, no, no and no.

This has nothing to do with chance.

There's a good chance that your mother dropped you on your head as a baby. But these things- no - there is no chance that the entirety of physics and chemistry is fundamentally wrong. There is no chance that evolution is fundamentally wrong.

kamitis wrote: Thing what i am saying theses things is not absolute and there is coming out researches what challenge theses ideas, some very weak and some stronger, and we should not just ignore them to keep ourselves in comfort zone where you listen just your believes supporters and single definition of plant perception. I mean you are simply ignoring opposite side work and researches.
That's where you're wrong. There is no such research.
Nothing is "coming out". There is no evidence, not weak, and not strong. NONE.

There is pseudoscience. Pseudoscience is not a type of science. It does not provide evidence, and it does not do research. It makes conjecture and produces propaganda.

Learn the difference.
kamitis wrote: I already seen your wiki pages and understand today view on plants/water.
No, you clearly do not.

It's not just a "view". It has nothing to do with how people in general see the things. It's how they actually are, as understood by science you obviously know nothing about and are loathe to show even an iota of respect for.

Read those articles. Don't just "see" them.
kamitis wrote: But main point is that it today view is not in any way absolute and can be challenged and over time can be changed with enough evidence, if enough evidence never come it will stay same.
You're breaking the Idiot-meter. You need to buy me a new Idiot-meter.

You have no concept of science. That's not remotely how things work.

kamitis wrote: Not sure if using word "intelligent" in this discussion is right way to go. It seem we don't understand with it same thing.
It's not correct to use "intelligent" with regards to plants in ANY discussion, or any video, or article, or documentary.
That's called bad journalism. It's called journalists not understanding anything about science, and just looking for sensationalist headlines. It's much less interesting to be honest, and say "plants react to some kinds of common environmental stimuli". It doesn't sell papers.

kamitis wrote:I don't care as long as i am open to opposite side and don't take any side as absolute true and not changeable while you go nuts over someone saying that opposite side might be true.
Then you clearly have no interest in critical thinking or science, since you're happy to give pseudoscience equal weight.

The reason I'm calling you out for being an idiot is because the "other side" is not science, and does not even resemble science to anybody who has taken time to examine the claims.

Some disagreements DON'T have two sides to weigh. Sometimes people are just stark raving mad.

It's often said, that if Republicans decided one day that the Earth was flat, journalists wouldn't report the real news "Republicans think the Earth is flat", instead they'd say "Congress can't decide what shape the Earth is".

Giving the unreasonable opposition equal time and coverage is a kind of journalistic bias. It's an attempt to be "fair" taken to an irrational extreme.
kamitis wrote:seem you think science should not be questioned and tested, challenged and changed with enough evidence. We should never try violate/change/test today science view?
Not by you. YOU shouldn't, because you're an idiot, and not qualified to understand the concept of testing something, or the barest principles of scientific methodology. So are all of these people advocating plant intelligence and water memory- every. single. one.

Your brain fell out completely a long time ago.

Should we spend millions of dollars every year testing again and again to make sure the Earth isn't flat? Do you think that's a good use of our resources as a civilization? Do you think that's a good thing to cover in the media, every time some crackpot claims the Earth is flat? Should we test and re-test every time somebody disagrees about the shape of the Earth?

Really, screw cancer research- who needs that right? We should be continually testing to see if the Earth is flat, non-stop, for the rest of human civilization. An annual budget should be delegated to these important matters!

Come on. Can you stop being a complete idiot for a few seconds and use some critical faculties?

There are REAL questions in science. Dark matter, finding new treatments for Cancer, preventing ageing, Quantum computing, Stem Cell therapy, Improved agricultural yields to end world hunger.

Then there are the things ONLY crackpots think are questions, but were actually solved a long time ago. The shape of the Earth, Plant "intelligence". Water memory. Psychic powers.

These things have been investigated. They have been solved. They have been proved to the limits of empirical methodology. They have been proved to the limits of theory, and logic.
Topic addressed. Money spent. DONE.

And FUCK YOU if you think we should waste MORE money and time on this kind of bullshit that has been solved for decades if not hundreds of years when there are still REAL problems in the world.
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Anon0045 wrote:The way I see it (as a layman) is if a plant is better able to reproduce, if they create thorns, poisons, emits chemicals etc. and respond to sounds, chemicals, touch etc, we will see more of those plants, because that's simply how evolution works. Plant do not have to have any consciousness in order for that to happen.
Correct! :D

Plants are "Darwinian Organisms"

They change and adapt on a multi-generation time scale to be suitable for their environments, and this can look to the uninitiated like intelligence and 'purpose'; in a very very crude way, you can say evolution has a certain innate purpose (or the gene does- replication), but it isn't really a being. It's why Christians think the world is "intelligently designed"- because the products of evolution *look like* intelligence.

In real time, plants respond 'reflexively'; cause and effect. The plant receives tactile sensation, it produces a certain chemical which causes certain other things. They act to create a cascade of automatic actions, 'programmed' by evolution.

A plant is no more intelligent because it produces a chemical signal in response to another stimuli, than baking soda is intelligent because it fizzes when exposed to vinegar. Both have zero intelligence.
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