The philosophical and spiritual views of Barbara McClintock

If plants are conscious, then it stands to reason to assume every life form is conscious -> a bacterium is conscious -> any cell in our body is conscious. I tried to google "single cell consciousness" and found a few articles that briefly touch on the idea. But then it doesn't take a leap of imagination to conjecture that my own consciousness is in fact the consciousness of a single "special" cell. It might be located in the brain, but not necessarily.

&gt;McClintock was unfazed by academia’s rejection. She simply stopped publishing and waited for science to catch up.<p>Scientists nowadays are judged mostly by how many papers they publish per year, this would be career suicide nowadays. Or unis will push you into pure-teaching positions to justify your expense, so you don&#x27;t have time for research any more...

Conciousness and language in animals is a form of abstracted motor action planning*. If it turns out some plants are sentient (or even sapient) their &quot;consciousness&quot; will likely be different enough to deserve a new word.<p>* see the book Rodolfo R Llinás wrote, &quot;I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self&quot;. Llinás was the discoverer of the mechanism by which myelinated axons conduct action potentials among a dozen other fundemental neural processes or neuroscience techniques. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rodolfo_Llin%C3%A1s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rodolfo_Llin%C3%A1s</a>

for a deeper dive into this sort of idea i recommend reading &quot;mind in life&quot; by evan thompson

Try missing to water your plants for a week or two and then spend some quiet time around them, as an experiment.

&gt; I found that the more I worked with [the chromosomes] the bigger and bigger [they] got, and when I was really working with them I wasn’t outside, I was down there. I was part of the system. I was right down there with them, and everything got big. I even was able to see the internal parts of the chromosomes—actually everything was there. It surprised me because I actually felt as if I were right down there and these were my friends.<p>Sounds remarkably similar to controversial Canadian pyschologist Jordan Peterson talking to Richard Dawkins about how a mushroom trip allowed him to experience DNA: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HbGoUwmqIEQ&amp;t=2473s">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HbGoUwmqIEQ&amp;t=2473s</a>

I have said it for many years: At some point there will be people who will only eat synthetic food, because they don’t want to harm plants&#x2F;fungus etc. - working title is “Syntheanians”