Gearshif5: Planta Sapiens

Question 1

What is above kingdom

Answer 1

Domain

Question 2

Who is susceptible to anasthetics

Answer 2

Animals bacteria and plants

Plants create them to initiate pauses in their processes.

Question 3

Behavior

Answer 3

A generic term. Any measurable response

Question 4

Anasthesia To put to sleep

Answer 4

Remove consciousness. But plants put themselves to sleep….so

Question 5

Pineal gland

Answer 5

Awareness of light where the circadian rythym resides. Descartes called it the seat of the soul

Question 6

Plant blindness.

Answer 6

We give less attention processing plants than animals. They take up less of our focus and less visual processing capacity. They don’t mirror us so how can we develop that interest and empathy?

Question 7

Plant blind ness and time

Answer 7

Plants are hard to relate to because compared to us, they are in extreme slow mo. They also have no nervous systems oreyes so that doesn’t help.

Question 8

Dear abi, put googly eyes on plants.

Answer 8

To overcome plantblindness

Question 9

I don’t know it’s name

Answer 9

So I call it magic

Question 10

Plants are individuals

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They do quick unpredictable behaviors as well as what seems like preprogrammed habits

Question 11

Plants are individuals

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They do quick unpredictable behaviors as well as what seems like preprogrammed habits

Question 12

We recognize and interpret movement as like us

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Like we see faces in shapes. We see intention in movement. We extrapolate familiar to unfamiliar. We mirror, and when we create we mirror, which is projection.

Question 13

Radiical

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Growing tip of a germinating root that encounters different aspects of the outside world from light and gravity to physical obstacles and makes choices about how to engage with them about how to find its way under ground.. this is where sentience can be deciphered

Question 14

Stomata

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Where a plant takes in carbon dioxide. It opens a according to roots and leaf level. Stores memory through a chemical

Question 15

The inverted y experiment

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Plants who were touched to simulate crowding invested their energy growing taller. Plants who weren’t touched grew out. They want space a part of the drive to survive I think must come frome an individuals need.

Question 16

Plants choose their shape

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According to stimuli plants react and change their phenotyp

Question 17

Plants communicate

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With scents. They percieve differently than our experience of smell. But there are 1700 different letters and different combos communicate words

Question 18

The smell of fresh cut grass is the

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Screams of a community to warn the next yard over. And all the animals that live there. So then who hears the vibrations of our screams and thinks that’s just what they do when I [mow the grass]

Question 19

I want to see a [sentience] aware, not in general and not aware of my existence, but aware that I’m aware that they are aware of me

Answer 19

When I say moon sees me, what she’s seeing is my awareness of her. And any sentences concept of self is _________ with awareness. Parallel synonymous inherent to the same as mirror is how you amen

Question 20

Action potential

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Firing electrical pulses for communication. Since multicellular organisms have existed ways to communicate between cells has existed. Not just nervous systems

Question 21

Mona Lisa’s smile teaches us

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Our emotions affect our perspective which is reality

Question 22

This would teach me something

Answer 22

Create a mirror with a delay

Question 23

Bb mice have film on their eyes. But their retinas and visual systems are still firing even when blind. When scientists block this once the mice can see they cannot process their surroundings. The act of blindly imagining or conceptualizing surroundings prepares them to sort through images into structures they’ve already formed

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3:39 51 %

Question 24

Andy Clark and david chalmers expanded conciousness

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Includes external inanimate objects.that are used for external processing. Calculators, pen and paper. Planning structures

Question 25

Brain doesn’t like surprises

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So it reduces incorrect predictions

Question 26

Attention buffer for prediction

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Mind has a side by side comparison of its model of reality and what is coming in through senses (reality as you are experiencing it. The Brin is constantly updating either to fit the other and minimize unpleasantness. Dear abi: these are parallel tracks

Question 27

Perceptual inferrence

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When you change the model of reality in your mind to match external reality

Question 28

Active inference

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When you change the world to match your model….dear abi this is done in 2 ways. Sorting info into the buckets of your mind or interpreting it to fit what you already think, or actively changing what is a round you to fit the internal model. There is a loop here that is scary to me regarding the nature of reality. You van never know. Now go to sleep

Question 29

William maxe said

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Ask not what’s inside your head, but what your head’s inside of

Question 30

William maxe said

Answer 30

Ask not what’s inside your head, but what your head’s inside of

Question 31

Empathy

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Plays an important part of understanding other species.

Question 32

We see anything as

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Is this me or not me?
Me: do I like this or want to expel it
Not me: What can this offer me?

Empathy with another person can be both

Question 33

Resonance model

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Gibson: Shows relationship or describes coupling between the subject and its environment

Question 34

We are shaped by

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Interactions between self and other

Question 35

Plants may be aware

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We have no evidence otherwise