Tag: Plants as sentient

Close-up of a green plant with sunlight illuminating the leaves on the right side of the image

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 4, 2024

Categorized
Panpsychism, Plant Mind, Politics

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Elizabeth Kolbert, Featured, František Baluška, Locked-in syndrome, Paco Calvo, Plant rights, Plants as sentient, Thomas Nagel, Zoë Schlanger}

Three Recent Books Argue for Consciousness in Plants

_{The award-winning environment journalist who reviews the books tackles the question, “If so, is it right to eat even plants?”} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 4, 2024

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Panpsychism, Plant Mind, Politics}

The idea that plants can "feel" things, based on their complex reactions, may stem from a misunderstanding of categories of consciousness. Read More ›

Stunning rain forest in a jar with self ecosystem

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 11, 2024

Categorized
Panpsychism, Plant Mind

Tagged
Plants as sentient}

If We Doubt That Plants Have Minds, Are We “Soul-Blind”?

_{The concept of “plant mind” as a trend in science — a trend consistent with growing panpsychism— has begun to worry some researchers} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 11, 2024

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Panpsychism, Plant Mind}

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. Read More ›