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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] JeeBaiChow 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, not in any way that we can relate to anyway. But that was the same with animals much earlier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

How much earlier are we talking? I bet if you asked prehistoric hunter-gatherers whether they thought animals experienced pain, they woulds say yes. The idea that animals were automata comes from Descartes.