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http://www.veganoman.org

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Miguel Segundo-Ortin and Paco Calvo, Plant sentience? Between romanticism and denial: Science

Abstract

The term sentience tends to be associated with affective valence along with affectively neutral sensory states. In the absence of evidence for affectively laden states in plants, the use of the term sentience in the exploration of plant sensory and behavioral complexity is misleading and ethically problematic for its potential to trivialize animal sentience.

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Author Biography

Teya Brooks Pribac, PhD, is a scholar and multidisciplinary artist, living in the Australian Blue Mountains with sheep and other animals. Her recent publications include the Nautilus award winning monograph Enter the Animal: Cross-species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality (SUP 2021). Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1788