2010.10.16 The responsibility of participation?

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There are different experiential modes of existence between plants and animals. Perhaps, to the plant-level consciousness (or 'plantness'), there is no awareness-evolving advantage to such an instinct because that flee action does not greatly modify what it means to be a plant (group of cooperating cells). Also plants might have a different experiential time scale, where they really don't 'get much out of experience' after a certain duration or cycles of being alive. The will and opportunity to use the will is much different in the plant than in the animal.

or, due to always living in meditative state, the access of their thoughts and feelings are much wider than any animal is, bringing all the results of the life going on about around them to their mind/spirit complex.