Originally Posted by bhutocracy

Energy actually does, the universe will ultimately end in heat death. The fact some of your energy goes to helping a worm take a shit doesn't mean anything other than at least your meat was put to good use.

It should be the most obvious thing to anyone that as a person undergoes a degenerative brain disease they lose their personality in correlation with the progress of the disease. To suggest anything else is to bullshit yourself into thinking that for instance Alzheimers is a "soul tricking" disease, and that yes, even as it destroys the brain that is a mere side effect to throw people of the scent of it's actual effect which is er.. What? Very, very targetted soul blocking? All these degenerative diseases are actually little mirrors that reflect parts of the soul back into the phlogiston? lol. I don't get why you'd even open that door up, it's been proven time an time again that the mind is a manifestation of the brain... That is why the mind changes when you change the brain, like when you put THC in it.. Of course I do mean observably proved, I can't stop you adding a whole Rube Goldberg machine of unneccessary mystical unfalsifiable prove-an-invisible-pink-unicorn-doesn't-exist bullshit to the situation. I mean your personality dies in a degenerative brain disease, you alter your personality with psychiatric drugs, you can trigger memories by stimulating the brain cells they happen to be stored in at that moment.. You die. Occam's Razor that shit. There is no proof that an afterlife does or does not exist but you've got to be the most glass half full motherfucker to know this evidence and choose to believe otherwise.

There is no evidence that plants feel fear, that was an unscientific experiment from a hippy in the 60's that has been disproven several times. No need for facts to get in the way of a little mysticism though, right? I can't believe you purport to run a science blog. Do just a modicum of research before you post the science equivalent of an email chain letter.