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clearly, especially since it's rhetorically convenient for you
an animal with a nervous system entirely analogous to ours and a plant that has crackly bubbles in its cells when it's low on water or damaged? the same thing, actually. identical. there is no difference between things, and if you think there are then clearly you're just a hypocritical vegan
I mean not necessarily hypocritical or even wrong. Just possibly irreflexive or vain.
don't you think that's a funny thing to say when you're building your entire metaphysical conception of the world around not having to change or question your lifestyle
Coming from you, extremely.
I'm not sure what you mean by "crackly bubbles". Many plants (possibly most of them) use electrochemical signaling, which at the very least resembles the hormonal system in animals. The simplest animals are definitely less complex, neural processing wise, than the most complex plants -- consider for example sponges (literally no nervous system of any kind) vs. the venus flytrap (capable of rudimentary counting; the trap only closes when the hairs are triggered a certain number of times within a certain timeframe).
There's also tons of animals whose nervous systems aren't at all similar to that of humans. Insects and arthropods for example don't really have a brain, just lumps of ganglia that do some rudimentary processing, and unsurprisingly most people don't really consider insects to be capable of having any kind of meaningful sentient internal experience.
the article they posted to back up plants "feeling pain" anthropomorphises bubbles popping in the fibres of damaged plants as "crying", which is apparently proof for plant sentience
Not proof, just interesting to think about.