Okay, its just one paragraph, so how many of you guys need to make a vegetarian joke? or something like it. nothing in the article even alludes to conscious thought or sensations of pain or emotions in the ways that animals make understand them. Only that plants have developed a functionaliy of memory and response different than that of animals. Not surprising since the plants are living creatures.

But obviously it doesn't have chemical-electrical impulses connected through nerves the way the animal kingdom does. So to all vegetarians, you can still eat food. Don't worry. But i would very much like to see the "fruits" of this research. Possibly even the ability to understand the communication operations of a kind that we are physically unable to replicate. (good news for people who want to make contact with alien-life.)