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question:how-do-plants-achieve-sentience-without-nervous-tissue-or-centralized-processorHow do plants achieve sentience without nervous tissue or centralized processor?
Question posed and addressed by Rouleau & Levin; drives the argument that substrate independence applies to sentience.
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- Central hypothesis: sentience is not exclusive to neural systems; other biological substrates may achieve felt states.
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- Summary claim about plant cognitive abilities from S&C's review.
- Load-bearing concluding statement about the broader implications of substrate-independent sentience.
- Conditional claim urging consideration of non-neural tissues for cognition.
- Second foundational pillar of TAME; supports basal cognition and rejects brain-centrism.
- Possibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.
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- aboutblank_kbCan plants achieve sentience or felt states without nervous tissue and brain-like centralized processors?questions/can-plants-achieve-sentience-or-felt-states-without.md0.876
- aboutblank_kbPlant Sentienceconcepts/cognitive/plant-sentience.md0.785