ABSTRACT
Plants are responsive to various things that affect them throughout a normal day, so there are a variety of 'feelings' they might have, if they feel anything at all. How it feels for a Venus flytrap to trap an ant is just one vivid case. Imagining how a plant feels requires imagining the circumstance of an utterly different sort of organism. Philosophers and psychologists have coined various terms for these 'things': "qualia", "raw feels," "sensa," and "phenomenal consciousness." Qualia are 'part of' the mind; they occur in the mind; to have or undergo them is to have a mind, or to be in a mental state. In Trends in Plant Science, the flagship journal of botany, Eric Brenner and several fellow botanists lobbied for the establishment of "plant neurobiology." "Plant neurobiology" was rooted in the idea that like animals, plants have sophisticated systems for transmitting electrical and chemical signals from one part to another.
