Can plants think? The burgeoning field of plant neurobiology has a lot to say on the matter

Though they lack brains, scientists are figuring out new ways to probe whether plants "think"

By MATTHEW ROZSA

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 4:00PM (EDT)

Americans like to mow their lawns, but blades of grass aren't supposed to all have the same length. Left un-sheared, an all-natural lawn contains grasses of wildly varying heights, more akin to an unruly, uncombed head of hair right after a long night's sleep. A lawn is not a single organism, but a large community of plants that have individual heights; being mowed is not the natural state for a blade of grass.

This raises a disturbing question: When a human mows a lawn, is that the equivalent of mass torture to the grass — assuming the grass can "feel" or "think" the way we can? The proposition is not as outlandish as it might seem.

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