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>Have you observed consciousness in plants?
Have you observed consciousness in anything? Consciousness is not something that can be perceived, it is the thing we assume is behind the observer itself. No empirical evidence supports consciousness as definitively existing, but if we assume us to be conscious (as we do), then we ought to extend that same assumption to other life like plants, as they display many of the same behaviors we do. Plants react to external stimuli, communicate with each other, avoid obstructing growth of sibling plants, and can store stimuli data as memory. Sounds familiar.
>>Nervous systems are so overrated
This is just my opinion. There is little evidence proving if anything is overrated or not, but from my experience many people overemphasize the significance of having a nervous system that works similar to ours. Extending moral obligations only to animals that have nervous systems that remind us of ourselves is one example I see often. Pretty egocentric.
>panpsychist bullshit
Rude.