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Plants Process Light in Vision-Like Ways

Research since around 2014 shows plants can perform complex tasks based on detecting light in ways that resemble vision and that they have more photoreceptors than humans, which raises the question of why we assume our light processing requires a felt experience of seeing while comparable or more complex processing in nature does not.

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Annaka Harris

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why we would assume that our experience of vision includes a felt experience again of seeing yellow and other processing in nature that in many ways is more complex they have many more photoreceptors than we do

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404 - What If Consciousness Is FundamentalMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:48:39 AM

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