How can plants be emotional and conscious?

Hi,



I have read so many articles about plants being emotional and conscious.

But they don't have a nervous system or a brain.

How can this be?



PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER WITH LINKS.



Thanks.

How can plants be emotional and conscious?
The most intelligent animals are usually those with complex social behaviour, living, or particularly hunting in groups. Perfect examples of this include chimpanzees and dolphins. They benefit from having very complex brains because they have to make rapid and incredibly complex decisions in their daily life, just to compete and survive.

Since a plant has very few decisions to make, and cannot do much to change its situation there is no reason for it to have emotions.
Reply:Plants are not emotional or conscious. The many articles that

say they are either are people fooling themselves or deliberate hoaxes. One of these reports came from someone who used a polygraph ("lie detector") on plants and

claimed to get a reaction that suggested consciousness.

Unfortunately further investigation produced the same reaction from a wet dishcloth.