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minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days agoPlants can feel pain the same way a machine can learn. Which means not at all outside of marketing. In reality they simply have mechanisms to react to damage. But that’s not pain. Pain is the processing of injury in a nervous system. Plants lack the nervous system required to feel anything. Just like a brain dead human, sponge or bacteria plants cannot feel pain in any meaningful way.
Plants can feel pain the same way a machine can learn. Which means not at all outside of marketing.
In reality they simply have mechanisms to react to damage. But that’s not pain.
Pain is the processing of injury in a nervous system. Plants lack the nervous system required to feel anything.
Just like a brain dead human, sponge or bacteria plants cannot feel pain in any meaningful way.