> What makes us so confident that plants don't also meet this criteria? Can lab grown algae burgers feel love? How would we know? When it comes to issues of co

> What makes us so confident that plants don't also meet this criteria? Can lab grown algae burgers feel love? How would we know? When it comes to issues of consciousness, I'm loathe to make any strong claims, since I don't think that phenomenal consciousness is amenable to scientific inquiry due to its innately subjective nature. E.g., for all I know, it might feel like something to be a rock. Though I doubt it. Likewise for plants, I would hypothesize that feeling things consciously requires complex information processing. E.g., such as is done in the brains of many animals. Plants certainly process information to some degree, but the degree to which they do so would seem to pale compared to the amount of information processing performed by even the simplest animals that have brains.