• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    One feels pain and has a brain.

    There is no scientific consensus that invertebrates on the evolutionary scale of krill feel pain, and a ganglia isn’t exactly what passes as a brain in vertebrates.

    That makes for a more complex creature which can feel more and experience the world more.

    I think that’s highly reductive, especially considering that we continue to discover more and more about mushrooms. We already know that mushrooms are capable of learning, individual decision making, and have a short term memory.

    We cant really make a qualified position of their complexity because we still don’t understand a lot about mushrooms.