Do Trees Have Minds?

Have you ever heard that question “If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear?” It comes from the song "If a Tree Falls" by Bruce Cockburn. This question caused me to ask another question: do trees have minds? Below is my theory which, very generally speaking, argues that it is possible for trees to have minds.

1. God has the greatest mind.

2. With the greatest mind, God created the lesser mind.

3. God created the brain as a more limited, physical representation of the lesser mind.

4. The lesser mind existed before the brain.

5. The existence of the lesser mind is not founded upon the existence of the brain.

6. Therefore, an object without a brain can have a lesser mind.

So, maybe we can hear trees within certain distances because the trees recognize the distances and provide the sounds because of this knowledge? Although, why are the trees not more generous in terms of distance? Why these limitations? I do not know and it does not really matter.

Or does it? Maybe if we believed that non-human objects had minds, and God-given minds at that, we would care about them more? Then again, nobody who writes about care really cares at all.