Evidence as to why some people go through with certain actions can be very scarce at times, but one thing that we are sure of is that each physical occurrence is preceded by a certain thought that the person had, causing them to react in the way that they did. “The abstract schema seems to be as follows. We know, from observation of ourselves, a casual law of the form “A causes B,” where A is a “thought” and B a physical occurrence” (Russell, 248). This schema is not only true for humans, but it is a detailed representation of higher up animals and plants as well. Every B is preceded by A, no matter the circumstance.
The best way to show the correspondence is through “hunger”. When people that are hungry, realize that they are hungry they will more than likely find food to eat to satisfy that hunger. Because of the initial thought of being hungry, the action of eating food was brought into play. The same thing goes for animals, for example, when a lion has the thought that it is hungry it begins to hunt for its next prey to satisfy that hunger. As Russell noted, “We observe in ourselves such occurrences as remembering, reasoning, feeling pleasure, and feeling pain” (247), and all of these occur because of a thought that went through our minds. We feel pain because our mind tells us that something hurts, we eel pleasure because our thoughts tell us that whatever it is we are experiencing is pleasant, each physical occurrence as a reason of thought behind it.
Plants take on the same role as humans and higher up animals, the only difference is that they do not move. Plants are very adaptive to their environments, over time they adjust to the circumstances they are put in in order to survive. In other words, plants have the thought that they are no longer fit to continue to live in the environment they are currently in, so they begin to adapt to their environment and