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CronoDAS comments on Open Thread, May 11 - May 17, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CronoDAS 16 May 2015 08:17:07PM 2 points [-]

Is that really learning, or just reacting to stimuli in a fixed, predetermined pattern?

Comment author: Romashka 17 May 2015 09:53:17AM 1 point [-]

Does vaccination imply memory?.. Does being warned by another's volatile metabolites that a herbivore is attacking the population?

(Higher) plants are organized by very different principles than animals; it is a never-ending debate on what constitutes 'identity' in them. Without first deciding upon that, can one speak about learning? I don't think they have it, but their patterns of predetermined answers can be very specific.