Jainism and the Umwelt of Mimosa pudica

Those interested in philosophical topics might like this 15 minute discussion with writer Michael Pollan about the sentience and memory of plants (the Mimosa pudica can remember things for up to 30 days). (It occurs to me that the bioelectric fields which biologists are now studying make Sheldrake's morphic fields redundant as an explanation for tissue regeneration and organisation.) It will, I think, come to be seen that the Jains were right all along, and that sentience is much more widespread and ubiquitous on our planet than humans in their anthropocentrism have hitherto imagined. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDANyIbXSY