Are fruits and vegetables conscious?

[etotheipi]

If, after you die, your consciousness disappears from existence, then how can we be certain that we're not just going to re-spawn as vegetables, or grapes, or something? Like, if your consciousness didn't exist for 13.8 billion years, but then suddenly popped into existence, what's to stop it from happening again, except this time you're born as a coconut? At what point does an inter-connected system of organic molecules, then cells, etc. become defined as being "conscious"? Is consciousness just a compelling illusion, due to complex not-well-understood chemical mechanisms in the brain, or is it more complicated and mysterious than that?

 

[gmax137]

how can we be certain

We can't be certain about any of these ideas.

 

[Evo]

We can't be certain about any of these ideas.

Exactly, and a discussion about "are coconuts conscious?" would fall under philosophy, and we don't do that anymore.