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Get the Plantanimal mug.The most speculative and hotly contested concept—the idea that plants might possess some form of subjective experience or sentience. This is not the scientific mainstream, but is explored in philosophy and some fringe science. It asks: If consciousness is an emergent property of complex information processing, could a neural-like network of vascular and chemical signaling give rise to a slow, green form of awareness? There's no empirical evidence for it as we understand consciousness, but it challenges our assumptions about which life can "feel."
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