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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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