To feel, as we humans understand it, requires a nervous system.
Plants can sense things in their environment and react to stimuli, but the “senses” a plant could have wouldn’t necessarily compare to any sensations that humans experience.
I mean feel in the sense of self-aware emotional experiences. I have a cat toy with a photosensitive receptor that allows it to react to a nearby animal, but it doesn’t experience sight. A plant will react to a caterpillar, but it doesn’t have any feelings about being eaten.
Plants can’t even feel things and I still don’t want to harm them for no reason. I think the act of being cruel is bad for you, like anti-therapy.
Actually it has been proven that plants can actually feel a lot of things that happen to them
Sense ≠ feel
To feel, as we humans understand it, requires a nervous system.
Plants can sense things in their environment and react to stimuli, but the “senses” a plant could have wouldn’t necessarily compare to any sensations that humans experience.
I mean feel in the sense of self-aware emotional experiences. I have a cat toy with a photosensitive receptor that allows it to react to a nearby animal, but it doesn’t experience sight. A plant will react to a caterpillar, but it doesn’t have any feelings about being eaten.