If you think that there’s a bright line somewhere—some fact of the matter about where to really draw a category boundary around suffering, which requires a “theory of subjective experience” without which we can’t usefully answer whether plants suffer—then I’m sort of disinterested in talking to you about plant suffering. Unless you want to change tacks and talk about the object level of plant cognition and plant stress responses? They’re cool.
If you think that there’s a bright line somewhere—some fact of the matter about where to really draw a category boundary around suffering, which requires a “theory of subjective experience” without which we can’t usefully answer whether plants suffer—then I’m sort of disinterested in talking to you about plant suffering. Unless you want to change tacks and talk about the object level of plant cognition and plant stress responses? They’re cool.