Can Plants Achieve Sentience Or Felt States Without

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• How do plants achieve felt states without nervous tissue and centralized brain-like processors?question0.854
• How do plants achieve sentience without nervous tissue or centralized processor?question0.838
  Question posed and addressed by Rouleau & Levin; drives the argument that substrate independence applies to sentience.
• If felt states in humans and other animals are always inferred, why is the same leap from observable behaviour to inferred sentience not afforded to other organisms, including plants?question0.817
  Central question of the commentary; challenges the double standard in attributing sentience.
• It is quite possible that felt states can be achieved in multiple ways and by many different biological substrates.concept0.809
  Load-bearing quote summarizing the paper's core hypothesis about sentience substrate independence.
• Felt states can be achieved in multiple ways and by many different biological substrates, analogous to how computation is multiply realizable.hypothesis0.795
  Foundational hypothesis bridging multiple realizability principle to consciousness; core argument for plant sentience possibility.
• Plant Sentienceconcept0.786
  Possibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.
• It is highly implausible that all sentient life in the universe achieves felt states using the neural circuitry underlying human Consciousness on earth.claim0.785
  Reinforcement of substrate independence: Earth-like neural circuits are unlikely to be the sole substrate.
• Plant sentience is likely to be the tip of the iceberg of sentient systems yet unknown.concept0.784
  Load-bearing concluding statement about the broader implications of substrate-independent sentience.