Are mixing up sentience and sapience? Fish and chickens are definitely sentient, e.g. they have a subjective experience of their existence. Bugs as well, I’d guess.
Maybe! I used sentience because you used it in your comment and can never keep the two straight. If sentience is a subjective experience then plants would have that by having feelings and intelligence, wouldn’t they?
Yeah I don’t think they can either, but we were speaking hypothetically as if they could. That’s why I got confused by you saying “actually sentient animals” as if the plants weren’t also sentient in this context. I assumed you meant sapience and thought I had conflated the two again.
Are mixing up sentience and sapience? Fish and chickens are definitely sentient, e.g. they have a subjective experience of their existence. Bugs as well, I’d guess.
Maybe! I used sentience because you used it in your comment and can never keep the two straight. If sentience is a subjective experience then plants would have that by having feelings and intelligence, wouldn’t they?
Plants don’t have feelings and can’t suffer.
Yeah I don’t think they can either, but we were speaking hypothetically as if they could. That’s why I got confused by you saying “actually sentient animals” as if the plants weren’t also sentient in this context. I assumed you meant sapience and thought I had conflated the two again.