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If Aliens visit us, they will likely classify us as "Non thinking creatures", just as we classify plants as non thinking. Everything rests on a spectrum and trying to classify everything into bins as "thinking" or "non thinking" is a childish way to go about explaining how the world works.

If you generate a 200 hz signal around the root systems of cabbage, the roots will grow toward the source. The plants can generate that signal as well, so yes, certain plants communicate with a very rudimentary audio communication system.

Do plants think? It depends on your definition, but yes, Plants think, computers think, humans think. A better word might be "plants calculate the best course of action to achieve a goal just like humans do.".



> If Aliens visit us, they will likely classify us as "Non thinking creatures"

No. Obviously not. We obviously manipulate our environment in complex ways.

> "plants calculate the best course of action to achieve a goal just like humans do.".

If you truly believed this you could never justify eating them.




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