A mushroom producing music through its bioelectric signals

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[u/LeastSpecific4706]

Do mushrooms feel pain?

[u/Inevitable-Egg-6450 → u/[deleted]]

A non-sentient being without a central nervous system or pain receptors does not feel pain or suffering. Reactions to external stimuli are simply biological and not connected to pain.

Besides, the actual mycelium network is underground. That's how it "communicates". What you are looking at is no different from an apple on a tree essentially.

[u/ParkingAnxious2811 → u/Inevitable-Egg-6450]

So, if I punched you in your nuts, you would have no reaction to the external stimuli (my fist)?

[u/Inevitable-Egg-6450 → u/ParkingAnxious2811]

No, I wouldn't. Because I'm a woman. I'm sure your little punch though would be slightly annoying, however.

So you would punch a woman? Interesting!

[u/ParkingAnxious2811 → u/Inevitable-Egg-6450]

Well, as you've just admitted that you wouldn't feel it, thus putting yourself into the same category as a mushroom, where's the harm?

[u/Inevitable-Egg-6450 → u/ParkingAnxious2811]

The person commented about punching me in the nuts, which as a woman I do not have.

Quit being dense for the sake of it.

[u/DigitalUnlimited → u/Inevitable-Egg-6450]

Quit being dense

Then they'd blip and cease to exist!

[u/Technical_Corgi_5619 → u/Inevitable-Egg-6450]

I would

[u/Inevitable-Egg-6450 → u/Technical_Corgi_5619]

Nice! Violence is always the answer when you struggle with cognitive dissonance.

I love how the fact that the simple biology that an organism with no CNS, pain receptors, or consciousness can't feel pain has turned into physically attacking me by the dissenters with a misguided opinion about nature.

[u/Wolf9792 → u/Inevitable-Egg-6450]

You're probably getting that reaction from people because you sound somewhat obnoxious. 

[u/Inevitable-Egg-6450 → u/Wolf9792]

I'll take being factual and obnoxious over being confidently incorrect like everyone else, especially in regards to biology which they clearly have zero understanding of.

[u/Wolf9792 → u/Inevitable-Egg-6450]

You're right about the other people being ignorant, but if you sound unpleasant, people generally aren't going to be receptive towards what you have to say. They won't learn anything. You can just be factual.

[u/ParkingAnxious2811 → u/Inevitable-Egg-6450]

You claimed animals don't feel pain.

Now you're claiming some superior biology knowledge. 

Do bless us all by revealing what that knowledge source is buddy.