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Miguel Segundo-Ortin and Paco Calvo, Plant sentience? Between romanticism and denial: Science

Abstract

The hypothesis that plants might be sentient confuses the notion of sentience (or consciousness) with that of sensing. Sentience/consciousness implies feeling, experience, and subjectivity. Sensing does not. Plants can sense/detect and even respond appropriately in the absence of any sentience/consciousness.

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Antonio Damasio is Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy, and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He has made seminal contributions to the understanding of affect and consciousness. Website

Hanna Damasio is Dana Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Neurology, and Director of the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She has made seminal contributions to the understanding of neuroanatomy and brain imaging. Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1805