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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

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A Plant's Conscious Experience Is What It Feels Like

In nature if there's a conscious experience associated with a p tendril that at that moment what that feels like is a want to start moving in a different way. So you you want to imagine that without anthropomorphizing. You have to empathize with a plant over the another organism that's not human. Right like if you chop off a human arm it's not gonna keep growing. Even if you keep it in a moist warm environment. It's not going to reach out for the cup of coffee when you come in with star. Maybe we just haven't found the environment but anyway that's pretty amazing.

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