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A Debate: Do Plants Have Sensation?

Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks

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Plant Sensing

Claims that plants are sentient include terms such as grava sensing and mechano sensation. A sensor changes in response to some specific external thing, he says. But then one would have to say that each cell of our body is sensing unbeknown to us? And some proponents of plant sentients actually hold this view? I'm curious to hear whether father thinks every cell of ourBody is sensing. Ah arit. So equivocation is sometimes involved. We need to examine the various ways in which the word and words such as sensing are used.

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