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Yeah LMAO no.
Mollusks are basically meat plants, they have barely a nervous system to speak of.
Also having eyes and a face has nothing to do with brain activity or neural capacity to process what you'd call an "inner life."
A mannequin has eyes and a face, a simulacrum of something need not share anything with it other than appearance.
You can absolutely extend this kind of empathy to mammals and primates as we know they have the brain structures we have observed to be necessary to have certain emotions, but it's not because of this asinine notion that if they look similar to us they have similar properties.
There are plants that can get "scared" and warn other plants of danger. Even plants that can uproot themselves and move if they feel threatened. They don't even have nervous systems or muscles in any way that we understand and are capable of locomotion, sensing their surroundings and communication.
Even plants may have feelings.
My phone warns me that the battery is low, does that mean that it has feelings and doesn't want to die?
It may. Can you prove it either way?
They aren't warning other plants of danger. That's an anthropomorphic interpretation.
They are releasing a chemical. Other plants respond to that chemical in a predictable, biological way.
There is no motive. No intent to save or protect. It's not a warning. It's just an evolutionarily advantageous sequence of cause and effect.
Just because object A's behavior helps object B's survival doesn't mean it has feelings. Complex cause and effect can be emergent phenomena without specific intent
While I don't think plants or certain animals actually experience life similarly, aren't our own emotions basically a product of chemicals being released in our brain as a result of certain stimuli?
"Emotions" is a very nebulous term. But we know that abstractions like guilt require certain types of brain function that is only found in humans, dolphins, etc
So yes, human emotion is indeed a sufficiently complex series of cause and effect. But that complexity is really important. And certain structures in the brain are necessary for things like self-awareness, abstraction, empathy, etc
For the record I believe that dolphins are non-human-persons. So I'm not a "humans are completely unique" kind of guy. But I also don't anthropomorphize lower order animals :D
Feelings in the sense of "they feel things through a sensory organ and react to that", same as sight, hearing, touch? Sure!
Feelings like fear? No.
Aversion from pain is not the same as fear, fear is aversion from pain that hasn't happened yet, it requires the ability to abstract the concept of negative outcomes and expand the aversion from discomfort to possible discomfort.
No plant has been observed reacting to something that it hasn't experienced at least once before.
Your bias is showing. The fact that we have not observed something is not evidence that it doesn't exist.
Ok, have you accepted the lord Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour?
I give him the same level of acceptance as Allah, Vishnu, Odin, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. There's a nonzero possibility that they're real, after all. I try to keep an open mind.
Sure, I give a sentient mollusk the same credence, i.e. a token amount that does not change my behaviour at all.
Right, because that token credence is completely in line with your previous assertive dismissal of your earlier comments. How very open minded.
Yeah, it is in line.
Are you not sinning for fear of retribution? Would you give pause to your actions only cause I called them sinful, or would you dismiss my accusations and go on with your day?
I'm dismissive because that's what "token" credence gets you. Yeah, it may be possible, but we all know it's about as likely as the sky falling tomorrow, so I'm not about to waste my time entertaining the possibility.
Black holes were thought to be only theoretical until we fucking observed one.
Theoretical is not the same as "made the fuck up"
Something being theoretical is as good as it gets short of being observed in science, it means the most evidence points to it being real which is why we spent insane amounts of money to find evidence of it.
If you were to postulate black holes without evidence they would exist but they would still made the fuck up until proven otherwise, not "theoretical".
Again, have you accepted the lord Jesus Christ?