Segundo-Ortin & Calvo on Plant Sentience

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• Plant sentience is likely to be the tip of the iceberg of sentient systems yet unknown.concept0.747
  Load-bearing concluding statement about the broader implications of substrate-independent sentience.
• Plant Sentienceconcept0.740
  Possibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.
• Plant sentience is likely to be the tip of the iceberg of consciousness yet unknown.concept0.731
  Load-bearing summary statement suggesting vastness of potential consciousness forms beyond current conception.
• Plants display goal-directed, anticipatory, flexible, and adaptive behaviors including kin discrimination, cooperation, mimicry, and risk evaluationfinding0.714
  Empirical evidence from plant neurobiology showing behavioral patterns historically attributed to animal sentience.
• Crump et al. eight criteria for sentiencemethod0.710
  Set of eight criteria: nociception, sensory integration, integrated nociception, analgesia, motivational trade-offs, flexible self-protection, associative learning, analgesia preference.
• Verbal reports, homology, and phylogenetic provenance are insufficient to determine sentience in unconventional agents.claim0.710
  Core claim: Turing test and brain homology fail for synthetic, AI, and radically non-human agents; new frameworks required.
• Current and forthcoming developments in bioengineering, synthetic morphology, artificial intelligence, biorobotics, and exobiology necessitate an expansion and generalization of sentience assessment efforts.claim0.703
  Central argument that frameworks must go beyond natural species.
• Plants can integrate chemical, electrical, optical, and mechanical signals to discriminate kin from non-kin and they can compete or cooperate with neighbouring organisms.claim0.703
  Summary claim about plant cognitive abilities from S&C's review.