The idea that plants can “feel” things, based on their complex reactions, may stem from a misunderstanding of categories of consciousness.
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The traditional explanation — that natural selection acting on random mutation (Darwinian evolution) explains it all — is becoming increasingly untenable.
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Darwinism’s failure to simply *eliminate* the human mind, as promised, enabled a Pandora’s box of materialist claims for consciousness in all life forms.
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I think the ultimate goal is to boost employment in the bioethics field. The more issues are deemed bioethical, the greater need for bioethics professors.
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Plant philosophy seeks to change the definitional understandings of “intelligence” to elevate the moral status of plants relative to humans.
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Andre Kessler is influenced by the idea that plant cells are like bees and the plant is like a colony, where the members think collectively.
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If panpsychism continues to gain ground, the human mind can at last be acknowledged to exist — along with the cabbage mind and possibly the electron mind.
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Human uniqueness is essential to our duties to each other, our posterity, the humane treatment of animals, and proper husbanding of the environment.
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The study of plant communication may have useful applications but perhaps comparisons with animal communication should be made cautiously.
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Darwinians may need to learn how to “adapt” to a new environment where panpsychism is increasingly an underlying assumption in science and science writing.
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If it’s true that we can’t trust the reasoning skills of our evolved brains to arrive at a correct answer, we are in no position to evaluate Harris’s own thesis.
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