Eric Greene – Page 45

Although plants probably do not feel pain, and most importantly, they do not suffer from pain signals. If plants do scream when stressed, we can assume that they are at least responsive to pain. The simple answer is that no one is currently sure that plants can experience pain. Trees cannot feel pain. However, trees are able to sense the damage their bodies incur, and the signals they send throughout their bodies cause individual tree cells to change their behavior. The cells respond to damage by stiffening. This is the closest analog that trees have to a pain response. While John Renzi isn't sure if the answer means they can feel pain per se, there are certainly good reasons for plants to detect and respond to physical "feelings", including trauma, and they do. John Renzi, Sacremento, USA Those of you who say that plants don't have a reason to experience evolutionary pain because they can't escape are missing the important fact that plants respond quickly to harm or threat when they usually do. complicated. for us to discover. Trees Can Respond Physiologically to Damage Of course, plants are equally susceptible to injury and react to it in their own way. Plants may not feel as sick as humans, but this new discovery shows they respond to injury and attack in strikingly similar ways. The argument here is that plants respond to pain by developing defense mechanisms when they detect a threat. The argument here is that plants may release chemicals as a form of communication to alert other plants to a threat as a response to pain. Because of radiation, the "crying" of plants can not be said to be caused by suffering, but a way of communication for survival. Like any living thing, plants want to live, and research shows that when some are cut, they make a sound that can be interpreted as a scream. The researchers used laser-driven microphones to pick up the sound waves produced by plants, which release gas when they are cut or injured. Plants make sounds that humans can't hear (without help), so the researchers used ultrasonic microphones to detect the sound waves during the study. Plants Have Some Ability to Hear Evidence collected by Monica Galliano of the University of Western Australia suggests that some plants can also produce and detect sounds, especially root crackling at a frequency of 220 hertz that is inaudible to humans. In 2014, researchers at the University of Missouri found that plants can "feel" the vibrations of caterpillars feeding on leaves and trigger chemical defense responses. A team of researchers from Columbia University in Missouri has found that plants can understand and respond to the chewing sounds of caterpillars when they are eaten. It's not new knowledge that plants are smart, but according to modern farmers, a new University of Missouri study shows that plants can sense when they're being eaten and trigger defense mechanisms to try to stop it. Plants don't have nervous systems, but video scientists captured for this new study of injured plants show they have their own version of fight or flight when attacked. Plants Have Reactions to Predators Plants respond differently to the fight-or-flight response to pain or death threats in humans and non-human animals. There is no scientific evidence that they can "feel" like humans and other animals. Of course, plants also don't have brains, so they lack the mechanisms needed to translate these stimuli into actual experiences. Plants have no response, no nervous system or brain, so they may not have a physical need to feel pain. So you're mumbling unreliably that plants don't have the science of a central nervous system so that they can't feel the pain of the plants themselves. Because plants don't have pain receptors, nerves, or brains, they don't feel pain like we animals do. Plants, on the other hand, cannot move, they can respond physically and have no evolutionary reason to feel pain. According to the authors' paper, plants cannot escape danger, so injecting energy into bodily systems that recognize threats and feel pain would be a very poor evolutionary strategy. Plants May Be Able to Experience Pain This is a naive point of view, since the bottom line is that we don't need to eat animals, we KNOW that we experience pain on a much higher emotional and physical level than plants. Eating plants directly - instead of feeding them to animals and then killing them for meat - requires far fewer plants and doesn't harm animals, which we already know for sure feel pain. Where possible, on a plant-based diet, which means we don't need to harm animals in order to live, and since they are in great emotional pain, it would be foolish to ignore this. Nonprofit animal rights organization Mercy for Animals notes that plants do not have nociceptors, specific receptors that allow humans and animals to feel pain. Together, these examples provide a compelling argument that plants are capable of experiencing pain. For some researchers, evidence of several defense mechanisms—gas noises when they are in danger—signals that plants are in pain. According to researchers at the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Bonn in Germany, plants give off gases that are equivalent to screaming in pain. A University of Wisconsin-Madison study published Sept. 14 in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Science found that when a plant is damaged, it sends a similar signal to the nervous system throughout the body, similar to the pain response that occurs in humans. and other animals. It is important to note that a reaction to injury does not mean that the leaf is in pain. However, plants, like all life forms, have developed tools to avoid and mitigate harm to themselves. While I can't say with certainty that plants don't have feelings, I've seen more evidence that they don't.