You’re probably familiar with plants that move and fight in modern fiction: the “Whomping Willow” on the grounds of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts school; the Peashooters from the Plants vs. Zombies video games; the evil vines defeated by Princess Twilight Sparkle in the cartoon series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic; and so on. But you may be surprised to learn that storytellers have imagined lively leafy plant-monsters for thousands of years.
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Mind Uploading: An Argument for the Scientific and Technical Plausibility of Preserving Thoughts Indefinitely by Kenneth Hayworth; Uploading Your Mind Does Not Compute by Peter Kassan; Virtual Immortality: Why the Mind-Body Problem is Still a Problem by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
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