User blog comment:Mr.Robbo/Human Chauvinism 5/@comment-4364108-20140106235932/@comment-4364108-20140107020228

Again, I said it wasn't IMPOSSIBLE, The progress of electricity would be severely hindered as everything would need to be waterproofed. Plugging in something without putting in both ends simulteniously would be a disaster underwater. Putting seeds into space is never going to be evolutionarily likely as It would require a huge amount of energy, and the plants on different planets would never interbreed, and most likely land in a hostile or uninhabitable environment, and if it was habitable, the lack of genetic diversity and small population would cause it to quickly die to a disease or genetic disorder making any plants with this ability die out quickly.

Sapience only has an evolutionary value when it reaches a certain point. Self Awareness is not helpful on it's own. That being said, plants can do complex algebra through non-neural ways, so it's possible for them to develop some degree of intelligence.

Again, none of this is absolutely impossible, just highly,highly unlikely, and aquatic and sentient plants would never develop space travel, the evolutionary pressures are too different.

Lastly, Writers don't make aliens human-looking just because they really like humans, and it really doesn't justify the use of the word "Chauvinisim." They write humanlike characters because Humans are the easiest thing to express emotion to readers. Unsuprisingly, a true alien would have Alien thoughts, Alien gestures, Alien customs, and Alien language, and Alien Ideas. The closest thing to an alien thought process I have seen in fiction is probabbly HAL-9000, and he is an AI, not a human, and also the most human character in that movie.