Understanding Plant Sentience and Intelligence

Past two decades, there's been a revolution in vegetal biology.

Science now shows that plants appear to be sentient beings.

They perceive light, smell, touch, water,

and many more variables than we do.

They can learn, remember, and communicate.

They exhibit the traits that we associate with personhood.

Experimental science has confirmed that plants can see when you're standing next to them

and the color of your shirt.

They don't have eyes, but they have the same photoreceptor proteins all over their bodies

that humans have at the back of the retina.

Plants don't have brains, but they translate information into electrical chemical signals in their cells

identical to the ones used by our own neurons.

A plant may not have a brain, but it acts like a brain, says Narbi.

The word neuron comes from the Greek for vegetal fiber.

Neurons actually look like the cut of the inside of a plant.

Research over the past 30 years has illuminated a profound intelligence throughout nature.