"Alan Gould" wrote in message
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In article , Franz Heymann
notfranz.
writes
Please define "feelings" before going f into this particular
pseudo-philosophical direction.

Corporal or emotional reactions.

No.
Water reacts corporally by becoming steam at a suitable combination of
pressure and temperature.
A torch battery reacts corporally by refusing to pass a current
through a light bulb when certain chemical changes have occurred in
it.
Would you like more contra-indications?

I challenge you to design an experiment which would prove that a plant
has any emotional reactions. The concept is an emergent phenomenon
which can only be described at all in the case of higher animals.

Franz