Me: we don’t know what plants experience or don’t and it seems arrogant to automatically assume they’re completely inanimate and unfeeling
People: lose their damn minds at me
Oh hey I studied animal cognition so I 100% agree. As early as the 1960’s scientists didn’t believe animals had any captivity for cognition beyond eating, mating, sleeping.
Researchers like Associate Professor Irene Pepperberg, were often mocked for suggesting animals were capable of feeling emotions and reacting to stimuli. You tell that to anyone today and they’d think that’s just crazy, obviously animals have emotions and cognitive functions.
The same attitude is still true with fish and insects now. It’s not too far fetched to think plants may be a little more then what we currently give them credit for




















