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Originally Posted by Patricia
You are thinking of Thomkin and Bird's 'The Secret Life of Plants.'
This is based on some truly deplorable pseudo-science. Plant do not have a nervous system and cannot feel.
There are some rebuttals here:
http://www.paghat.com/telepathic.html |
Perhaps it was, as you say, pseudo-science. There have been many unaccepted discoveries that were later widely accepted as truth, e.g. the flat earth, the earth is the center of the universe. So just because a plant does not have the same methods of feeling as you or I, doesn't mean they are not aware and feeling in some manner. All you have to do is to watch a time lapse video of a plant growing to see that they are aware of both gravity and sun light. I'm not saying they are and like Ricky, I don't often pass up a nice juicy steak just because a cow has a nervous system similar to mine and therefore "feels", but I don't totally discount the possibility of even what we call non-life as not being able to feel.
As I stated before, there are and have been many cultures that believed that the earth herself (itself?) is a living entity. Many other cultures believe in spirits (both good & bad), demons, devils, gods, a God, etc. that are very different to humans and animals as we know them. Are entities unfeeling because they don't have our type of nervous system? Or perhaps you are an unbeliever in any of these, which is contrary to the bulk of humanity.