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Plant sentience: Getting to the roots of the problem

par Dołȩga, Krzysztof;Siekierski, Savannah ;Cleeremans, Axel
Référence Animal Sentience, 8, 33, 479
Publication Publié, 2023

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Segundo-Ortin’s (2023) target article invites us to consider the possibility that plants can experience subjectively felt states. We discuss this speculation on the basis of the functional neurobiology of consciousness. We suggest that demonstrating plant sentience would require that we identify not only behaviors analogous to those exhibited by sentient creatures, but also the functional analogues of the mechanisms causing such behaviors. The lack of clear evidence for any kind of integration between self-states, self-movement, environmental states, memory, or affective communication within plants suggests that plant sentience remains an admittedly fascinating, but ultimately merely provocative speculation.