• nforminvasion@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    One feels pain and has a brain. The other does not feel pain. Also one is an animal with a much more complex body than a mushroom. That makes for a more complex creature which can feel more and experience the world more.

    I’m not saying krill are moral philosophers or poets. But they are much more advanced than mushrooms

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      2 months ago

      One feels pain and has a brain.

      There is no scientific consensus that invertebrates on the evolutionary scale of krill feel pain, and a ganglia isn’t exactly what passes as a brain in vertebrates.

      That makes for a more complex creature which can feel more and experience the world more.

      I think that’s highly reductive, especially considering that we continue to discover more and more about mushrooms. We already know that mushrooms are capable of learning, individual decision making, and have a short term memory.

      We cant really make a qualified position of their complexity because we still don’t understand a lot about mushrooms.