Interesting convo with dad againnnnn. "TREES HAVE NO BRAINS."

Me: So there, I'm just an ignorant, stupid, immature teenager who knows nothing~

Dad: You're not immature.

Me: I'm mature?

Dad: No.

Me: Well--it would actually depend on your definition of 'mature'.

Dad: What do you think it means?

Me: ... well, acting beyond your age and being able to think sensibly, make decisions and judgments  responsibly for yourself...? I suppose it's kinda like thinking more and analysing things carefully--having foresight and all that.

Dad: No. 'Mature' actually means being able to 'understand'.

Me:... Then no one on this Earth is 'matured' because nobody can actually fully understand everyone--it's pretty exhausting and tiring. Furthermore, humans are self-centered and think of themselves only. As much as they want to think of other people and help the greater good, it's pretty much impossible to be mature, right, I mean-- they'll start thinking of themselves. Even Gandhi. Although he goes on all those hunger strikes and--

Dad: Do you know about Gandhi and what he did? He was on the train and one of his shoe dropped, so he threw the other off the train. When people asked him why--he said it was because since one of his shoe dropped into the tracks, and he could retrieve it--

Me: He threw the other so that someone may be able to get a pair of shoes.

Dad: Yeah. So, that shows him being able to understand things in a larger picture. That's what being mature is about. Being able to understand things in a larger picture.

Me: But that's rather impossible, isn't it? I mean, you can't always be understanding and all--it gets tiring--

Dad: Look at the trees. They bend towards the sunlight and don't get twisted with each other too much because they understand that it's bad to actually block other plants.

Me:... that's a whole different thing. Understanding requires a brain to facilitate that emotion. Or thinking. And we all know that trees don't have brains--

Dad: But they're able to live. There must be something to actually make them able to take in water through the roots and besides, look, they rarely get entangled with other branches, so there must be some kind of like a CPU to control it--

Me: Trees have no brains, right--

Dad: But there must--

Me: TREES HAVE NO BRAINS.

Dad: There could be some kind of a similar--

Me: We all know that trees don't have brains. When you cut down a tree it doesn't exactly bleed--

Dad: It does. The leakage from--

Me: That's the water in the xylem tube. AAAND, when you cut down a tree, you can't find its brain--

Dad: It has a memBRAIN.

Me: That's in the cell--

Dad: And it has a wall--

Me: We're talking about brains here. So TREES HAVE NO BRAINS.

Dad: MemBRAIN.

Me: But it doesn't have a HUMAN brain to actually make it able to understand, right? So it--

Dad: No--

Me: TREES HAVE NO BRAINS.

Dad: but--

Me: DAD TREES DON'T HAVE BRAINS. ROAR.

Dad: but like the CPUs in computers--

Me: DON'T TRY TO DIVERT THE TOPIC. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TREES AND COMPUTERS AREN'T ALIVE.

...but anyway. Trees don't have-- HUMAN OR ANIMAL brains, right?

Dad: ... /nods/

Me: So there. Trees have no brains to facilitate the 'understanding' of maturity! ... what were we talking about...

And after a long while, we finally came to the conclusion that no one on the world was mature and that trees had no HUMAN brains. So trees aren't mature. And to tell the truth, maturity is overrated.

And kinda had this idea that there was a logic bubble surrounding all of us ( I read a book about something of similar content) and that everyone's logic was only based on what we had experienced--the emotions, the memories and lessons we were taught. In the logic bubble, everyone has their own individual set of logic (like DNA) so actually, there was no actual correct logic to anything. But in our textbooks, there was something that said logic = rule.
Which was wrong, since logic was based on the majority and it would be really unfair to actually have a set of rules for what was right and what was wrong--there are no rights and wrongs in thinking.

"DAD, TREES DON'T HAVE BRAINS."