Originally Posted by
Nightshade
Ok but then the argument comes up that it is agreed in science that vegetation (trees and plants etc.) are alive. They do not have a sentient force to speak of but do contain life. The same couls be said of cells and other things on a micro scale.
So if using this logic then it tosses up a big question as to what actually constitutes life or a living "being" so to speak.
Yep... there's a lot of grey area when you get to the cellular level.
Since plants do respond to stimuli ( a lack of water or wildly fluctuating temps) then you could bend the rules and call it sentinence at a basic level.
And then you get into plant families like
Nepenthaceae (
pitcher plants) which are carnivorous rather than photosynthetic.
At the plant level, the evolutionary clock slows down a bit. Usually.
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