| > - Photosynthesis is shown to be quantum mechanical. I'm not sure quantum mechanical behavior in plants is the best argument that quantum mechanics are responsible for consciousness. -------------------------------------------------------- "Something Really Fascinating Happens When You Give Plants Anaesthetic" > While there's a range of chemicals that can induce anaesthesia in humans, just how these unrelated compounds trigger a lack of consciousness remains somewhat unclear. > And the mystery deepens when you consider it isn't only animals that are affected by anaesthetics – plants are, too. ... > "That animals/humans and also plants are animated via action potentials is of great importance for our ultimate understanding of the elusive nature of plant movements and plant-specific cognition/intelligence based plant behaviour." > Ultimately, the team thinks these similarities between plant and animal reactions to anaesthetic compounds could lead to future research where plants might function as a substitute model or test system to explore human anaesthesia – something scientists are still pretty uncertain about. Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-respond-anaesthetics-wei... -------------------------------------------------------- Now if I had to add a philosophical icing to the cake, I'd guess once something gets to complicated to be explained from the ground up as a consistent whole, the only way to get at it is to study what causes this whole to cease. |
The point being, there are many components to what we call consciousness that seem to be demonstrably separable and it doesn't help to talk as though it's all just one unified whole.