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Bedlam
reply to post by ImaFungi
I don't believe things only exist because they fit some 'plan'. That implies a planner and planning.
They just exist. They evolved out of more primitive life. We went one way, they went another. It's all random chance and time.
yamammasamonkey
reply to post by ImaFungi
Humans take in oxygen and release CO2. Plants take in CO2 and release oxygen. So maybe they make sustained human life possible. That's a fairly important purpose, right?
dusty1
reply to post by ImaFungi
Makes a person think that this symbiotic, biosphere was designed.
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johnb
but what is it benefiting of existing if it cannot experience its existence, thats what I am getting at, I think.
What are humans benefiting from existence by experiencing it?
GetHyped
reply to post by johnb
Like all life, to pass on their genes. There is no "purpose" here, it's "just" complex behavior arising out of the laws of physics and chemistry.
moebius
reply to post by ImaFungi
Personally I see consciousness as an emergent property: "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts". Make a system complex enough and you might observe something that one could describe as consciousness.
Plants are relatively simple systems compared to humans, too simple to develop consciousness imho. One could speculate that under different circumstances plants might have become complex enough to have "a brain".