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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not at all, it’s just a reaction. When you drop your mentos into Diet Coke, you see a very excited reaction, but do you really call that an emotion or can you really connect that with any entity’s awareness?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Mentos and Diet Coke are not alive. Plants are. Mentos and Diet Coke are also not having reactions to being damaged that signal that damage to other cans of Coke and packs of Mentos. Plants do. That is not a good analogy.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

what do you mean by "alive", and why should that matter?