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  • deft@lemmy.wtftoFuck AI@lemmy.world•Distractionmaxxing
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    6 days ago

    What?

    There’s a difference between sentience and consciousness. There’s also the fact that there is no actual way to measure these concepts and say for a fact if something experienced one or not.

    Plants have goal oriented behavior, plants have chemicals that respond to stimuli. Sentience is simply the basic ability to feel and experience. There are absolutely arguments to be made around that.

    Most arguments against things being sentient or not is a lack of a neural structure. But that’s like saying things without mouths cannot eat. The limited human experience makes one both arrogant in assumptions and ignorant of other’s experiences because they can’t relate.

    “Sentience” is just chemical reactions all the way down. There’s no reason to fully assert plants are not sentient. Especially when we can’t even define what makes something conscious or not.







  • deft@lemmy.wtftoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Vote
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    15 days ago

    People need to understand political terms and social terms aren’t broad.

    Policies can be capitalist in a socialist government. Governments can engage in a socialist movement and still be fascist.

    They’re more adjectives than nouns.



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    15 days ago

    Definitely. It’s that class war shit, information control is the bread and butter for those bastards. If we undid capitalism new people would just find more ways to game the system against the majority.

    But also fuck capitalism


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    16 days ago

    I don’t think people are butthurt it gets pointed out. The stupidity of how and the bias of what is the problem.

    People out here trying to act like the US is the only one who has done this. Many of these people try to act like other countries don’t court soft power, that this campaign to dissuade voting every election isn’t intentional and that the solution is to just let millions of people suffer so armchair activists can pretend they told you so.

    So it’s fucking stupid to cry capitalism at every turn when the issues are actually larger than capitalism and many of them actually aren’t from capitalism. Power structures in general, representation, honest and truthful information, greed for control and money. Those issues are way fucking bigger than capitalism, they’re basically timeless human struggles.

    Calling it all capitalism and throwing yourself in a fit over it is childish. The fuck is this 2010? People actually do want to push society forward not just make a new boogieman and act like if that’s gone we’ll have a utopia.