What do you guys think the experience of living as a tree is

What is the experience of living as a skin cell?

>>19595987
>glorified_public_masturbator.jpg
I chuckled.

>>19595997
It's probably pretty boring but I imagine trees can at least bask in their own ennui

>>19595987
Yeah I wondered this yesterday

fucking /x

anyway, it's like blind almost thoughtless breathing through cycles of cool rest and warm stretching. your only thoughts are a cycle of "this feels good and different than the last feeling"

>>19596005
They look like an inverted lung but I have a weird suspicion they can probably hear things

>>19596008
Smell. Plants release pheremones

>>19596057
If you think about the way their anatomy is arranged they definitely have potential sensory equipment in all the right places to receive auditory information.

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>>19595987
I grow apple trees from seeds just for fun. I would bet that trees experience life very much like animals do, except their sense of time is drawn out. If you could see 10 years in a hour you would realize trees are like slow green tigers. Fighting with everything they have to live like every other animal. You think they are peaceful because they are slow, but you are wrong. They are ferocious.

I wonder if they experience time more quickly than we do. They seem to be stationary to us but really they're always growing n stuff. Wonder if they can perceive it the way we perceive moving from one place to another.

>>19597558
this

>>19597558
>You think they are peaceful because they are slow, but you are wrong. They are ferocious.

Funny, I get a similar impression. However, I suspect they are gentle when not under threat. Humanity cultivates plants, and from the plant perspective they are cultivating us right back. It's a symbiotic relationship. I do think that the coca and poppy plants are pretty much straight up demons, however.

>>19597558
>They are ferocious.
I never thought about it this way, but then I look back at all the times that I've seen evidence of roots splitting rocks in half, or seeing the dandelions growing up through asphalt.

I like this way of thinking

>>19597558
Plants like pine trees use their dead needles to kill growth around their trunks. When eaten by larvae, plants will release pheremones that attract wasps and other predators. Trees can "communicate" when a fire spreads - releasing pheremones that cause other trees to draw their sap inwards in defense.

I definitely think there is some awareness in plants, but it wouldn't be anything like one based on a nervous system.