Anesthetics and plants: no pain, no brain, and therefore no consciousness

A Draguhn, JM Mallatt, DG Robinson - Protoplasma, 2021 - Springer
Plants have a rich variety of interactions with their environment, including adaptive
responses mediated by electrical signaling. This has prompted claims that information …

Ample evidence for fish sentience and pain

LU Sneddon, DCC Wolfenden… - Animal …, 2018 - wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org
The majority of commentaries are supportive of our position on the scepticism that muddies
the waters surrounding fish pain and sentience. There is substantial empirical evidence for …

Lessons from miniature brains: Cognition cheap, memory expensive (sentience linked to active movement?)

G Vallortigara - Animal Sentience, 2020 - wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org
Studies on invertebrate minds suggest that the neural machinery for basic cognition is
cheap, and that bigger brains are probably associated with greater memory storage rather …

Plant sentience, semantics, and the emergentist dilemma

D Brown, B Key - Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Recent arguments in plant biology that claim to be uncovering the scientific basis for
sentience in plants are grounded on assumptions that have not been sufficiently scrutinized …

Making Sense of Plant Sense

B Key, DJ Brown - Philosophy of Plant Cognition, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
A hitherto unchallenged assumption in much of the literature in favour of the idea of plant
sentience is that since the function of consciousness in humans is to mediate adaptive …

[PDF][PDF] Steenbergen, Peter J.; Bardine, Nabila; Broom, Donald M.; and Brown, Culum (2018) Ample evidence for fish sentience and pain. Animal Sentience 21 (17)

LU Sneddon, DCC Wolfenden, MC Leach… - academia.edu
The majority of commentaries are supportive of our position on the scepticism that muddies
the waters surrounding fish pain and sentience. There is substantial empirical evidence for …