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> they experience pain and fear, like [...] probably also many plants

Out of curiosity, do you have any data to share that supports your perspective?

Yeah, their observations of their behavior over a history of catching and eating them.

Oh, you mean tabular, quantitative data? Come off it.

Admittedly, it would be cool if the OP had net_utils_by_specie_empirical_timeseries.xls just sitting around on their hard drive.

> their observations of their behavior over a history of catching and eating them

Perhaps "data" is too analytical; I'm interested in how plants convey pain and fear.

It's an open question whether prescribing emotions to plant-life is appropriate, but it is a common model used to explain plant behavior. You could argue botanists are anthropomorphizing their subjects...or you could fixate on the overlap of plant and animal behaviors in response to similar conditions.

But for some science showing botanists using emotional language for plants in action, here ya go: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/scaring-soybeans-def...

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