Why is it so hard to acknowledge that plants: 1. Feel 2. Learn 3. Respond to pain 4. Not respond to pain if under anaesthesia 5. Chemi

Why is it so hard to acknowledge that plants: 1. Feel 2. Learn 3. Respond to pain 4. Not respond to pain if under anaesthesia 5. Chemically whimper if they are sick 6. Communicate ... That there might be something deeper? Where is your sense of scientific inquiry that the previously held beliefs are potentially wrong? Would you want to be able to open up a line of communication if it were indeed possible?