How different would it be if plants withered on a faster timescale?
- How different would it be if plants withered on a faster timescale?
- We already don't like thinking about eating animals, because we can watch them feel pain and empathize with their feelings.
- Today when you cut a plant, it takes hours or even a day for it to wither.
- It's at such a different clock speed than we operate on, it's possible to not see it as pain.
- Imagine if that same process happened in seconds, like it does for animals.
- As soon as you cut the plant, you saw it writhe in pain and dessicate.
- We probably wouldn't feel very good about eating plants, either.
- To a computer, humans are like plants.