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minus-squareAeroLemming@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months ago only to be keenly aware at all moments of how pollution, deforestation, and climate change is damaging the forest in real time. There is no evidence to suggest that fungi are conscious.
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months agoWell, same for humans, there is no way we are this stupid. Just a bunch of natural algorithms and instincts. (Also you saying that bacteria are “conscious”? What does that even mean? We all make active decisions all the time.)
minus-squareAeroLemming@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI am not saying bacteria are conscious. I am saying that as a fungus (or bacterium), you wouldn’t be aware of environmental collapse because you wouldn’t be aware of anything. You wouldn’t suffer.
There is no evidence to suggest that fungi are conscious.
Well, same for humans, there is no way we are this stupid. Just a bunch of natural algorithms and instincts.
(Also you saying that bacteria are “conscious”? What does that even mean? We all make active decisions all the time.)
I am not saying bacteria are conscious. I am saying that as a fungus (or bacterium), you wouldn’t be aware of environmental collapse because you wouldn’t be aware of anything. You wouldn’t suffer.