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A Debate: Do Plants Have Sensation?

Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks

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Plants and Micro Organisms

"I'm not sure that thing isn't aware. Maybe that thing is aware," he says of a single cell locramarium. "But, i don't want to draw a conclusion about these plants here based on a micro organism that's just not really well known." He asks if you are open to the possibility that this single cell,. when it haunts, has a rudimentary awareness in order to account for its behavior, then my question is, why, a priori, are you willing to then reject offhand that the plants have a rudimentary form of awareness? Does that make sense? I'm just trying toundr and how to explain this phenomeno tha we can observe in

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