Are plants conscious? The radical new experiments that hint at plant consciousness

Aug 24, 2022

The New Scientist wrote an article about MINT Lab researcher’s Paco Calvo’s and Miguel Segundo-Ortin’s work on exploring plant consciousness! Here is the beginning:

MANY people have seen the way a Mimosa pudica plant, also called the touch-me-not, folds its leaves when they are touched. Fewer know that if you put one into a sealed chamber with a dose of anaesthetic, it will eventually stop doing this, as though it has been knocked out or put to sleep.