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Re:Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other by ddebernardy on Sunday August 20, 2017 @03:30PM (#15059876)
One big standard is the ability to recognize oneself in a mirror and, insofar as I'm aware, humans are the only ones who have yet to pass it consistently. (Perhaps a few great apes have done so since.)
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Re:Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other by hacker_9 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @03:54PM (#15059967)
No? The 'mirror test' has been passed by a range of animals, including apes, elephants and dolphins.
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Re:Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other by seszett on Sunday August 20, 2017 @04:03PM (#15060004)
But anyway it's obviously meaningless when we're talking about plants.

Blind humans cannot recognize themselves in a mirror either, but it doesn't mean anything about their sentience.

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Re:Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other by rectangletangle on Sunday August 20, 2017 @04:32PM (#15060120)
It becomes further confused when animals like dogs are introduced into the equation. They fail the visual mirror test, primarily because vision isn't their primary sense.
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Re:Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other by anfractuosity on Sunday August 20, 2017 @04:22PM (#15060086)
There's also a paper regarding the mirror test and ants - http://www.journalofscience.net/File_Folder/521-532(jos).pdf
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Re:Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other by sebleon on Sunday August 20, 2017 @05:31PM (#15060346)
Why is this a big standard for sentience? Seems like a silly, contrived test.
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Re:Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other by taneq on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:48PM (#15061787)
Because it's something that we thought only humans can do. Of course, we've now replaced it with something else that we think only humans can do.
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