Do trees have feelings?

[davewhite04]

But Dragon was not specific, so how can you be sure what he was hugging. He might have been drunk and hugging a lampost. Witnesses are required before the matter can be taken further. I would also reques a character reference.

lol

You are a character Myles

 

[davewhite04]

Generally, trees are immune to change, making them far more reliable observers and recorders of reality than us.

When you add this together with the great ages some of them can live - two thousand years plus - it may seem that we are already sharing the world with beings greater than ourselves.

Do you think trees have conciousness?

 

[Simon Anders]

Do you think trees have conciousness?

Yes.

 

[Simon Anders]

How do you know?

Oh, that was a joke. Some shrubs are just fine. I do think that plants have feelings. Hell, they like classical music.

 

[Myles]

Do you think trees have conciousness?

What a naive question. Haven't you ever heard wood squeaking on a log fire ?

 

[Diode-Man]

I would imagine that the trees have no sense of time. So the life of a tree, from a trees perspective must last a short instant.

If they don't have perspective, then they are merely a highly complex chemical reaction.

 

[Simon Anders]

If you spent a long term in prison, you'd soon change tour tune

OK, this went over my head. And when I'm on tour I make choices from a rather large repetoire.

 

[cosmictraveler]

Trees talk when their leaves rustle and cry when their leaves shed.

 

[davewhite04]

Yes.

Care to explain?

 

[davewhite04]

Oh, that was a joke. Some shrubs are just fine. I do think that plants have feelings. Hell, they like classical music.

Some humans don't like classical music but they have feelings, what a conundrum.

 

[davewhite04]

What a naive question. Haven't you ever heard wood squeaking on a log fire ?

I appreciate your humour, but I want serious answers my good Irish man.

 

[Myles]

I would imagine that the trees have no sense of time. So the life of a tree, from a trees perspective must last a short instant.

If they don't have perspective, then they are merely a highly complex chemical reaction.

If they have no sense of time, how do they know when to shed their leaves, when to produce buds and so on ?

 

[Myles]

I appreciate your humour, but I want serious answers my good Irish man.

Expect a serious answer to a serious question. Fire away !

 

[Simon Anders]

Some humans don't like classical music but they have feelings, what a conundrum.

You do see the logic problem in your argument. No human that does like classical music lacks feelings. You post is implying that my argument would say other humans would not have feelings. That is hardly a logical conclusion.

 

[davewhite04]

Myles:

Did you vote?

If so, explain your choice.

 

[davewhite04]

You do see the logic problem in your argument. No human that does like classical music lacks feelings. You post is implying that my argument would say other humans would not have feelings. That is hardly a logical conclusion.

I didn't conclude anything.

 

[Myles]

You do see the logic problem in your argument. No human that does like classical music lacks feelings. You post is implying that my argument would say other humans would not have feelings. That is hardly a logical conclusion.

That will teach you all to ignore my advice about the need to define one's terms. So, from the top, feelings are ...

 

[Myles]

Myles:

Did you vote?

If so, explain your choice.

I never vote and I never explain why. Sorry about that but some things are meant to be kept private.

 

[draqon]

Sorry about that but some things are meant to be kept private.

Your thoughts on whether trees have feelings should be kept private? :bugeye: yea ok...

 

[davewhite04]

Myles:

You obviously know what feelings are, so why expect everyone else to be ignorant of them?