Disentangling sentience from developmental plasticity

Plants, like animals, display remarkable developmental plasticity, inviting the metaphorical use of terms “decision” and “choice”. In animal case, this is not taken to be evidence sentience, because sentience a complex product development, something that guides it. We should apply same standards when evaluating in plants. It hard overstate contrast with case invertebrates such as octopuses, where pain markers were originally developed for mammals have been clearly demonstrated plausible neural substrates identified.