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Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights. Terrasse-Vaudreuil 1st municipality in Canada to sign on to Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree. (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] dreamy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Plants don't decompose fungi, they absorb already decomposed fungi. And I wouldn't say that the absorption of that is "eating". Plants still need other life to survive, but there is much more of a symbiotic relationship, not this Nietzschean idea that you're proposing.

We certainly know that the building blocks of life are abundant like amino acids, but life itself isn't. Protocell formation is still hard, that's why we still have a hard time replicating it. So the amino acid consumed most likely wouldn't have become life. This was my point.

I said "this is just you conceding" in response to this, nothing to do with "life doesn't exist so quickly":

I guess you could say this is the bottom of the chain as long as fetuses aren’t people so amino acids aren’t life