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Is it philosophically possible to "be" a plant in the same way that it's possible to "be" a human being?
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December 29, 2011

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Oliver Leaman
January 1, 2012 (changed January 1, 2012) Permalink

Why not? Both vegetables and us having being, albeit rather different.

I recall a show many years ago which had a very human plant in it, but the trouble with it for our purposes here is that really it was a human being dressed up as a plant, as far as I could see from its behaviour, and so hardly expressive of a very different life form.

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