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[โ€“] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The smell of cut grass is the grass warning other grass that doom is upon them. Plants communicate in ways we can't understand in the same way as they don't make noise. They don't like being harvested anymore than an animal does.

[โ€“] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 10 minutes ago

And how do you suppose that warning response leads to qualia?