Why Should Plants Be Denied The Possibility Of

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• Plants can integrate chemical, electrical, optical, and mechanical signals to discriminate kin from non-kin and they can compete or cooperate with neighbouring organisms.claim0.725
  Summary claim about plant cognitive abilities from S&C's review.
• The first possibilities that present themselves to the mind are more likely bad than good; therefore one should be extremely skeptical and reject most of them.claim0.709
  Practical advice derived from the previous claim.
• Plants engage in mimicry to avoid predation and can even exploit the perceptual biases of animals within a single lifecycle.claim0.708
  Further evidence of complex, adaptive plant behaviour.
• Can Plants Achieve Sentience Or Felt States Withoutquestion0.688
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.687
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• How do plants achieve sentience without nervous tissue or centralized processor?question0.686
  Question posed and addressed by Rouleau & Levin; drives the argument that substrate independence applies to sentience.
• Plants display goal-directed, anticipatory, flexible, and adaptive behaviors including kin discrimination, cooperation, mimicry, and risk evaluationfinding0.683
  Empirical evidence from plant neurobiology showing behavioral patterns historically attributed to animal sentience.
• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.679
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach