Sensation is, after digestion, the Second Way of knowing. When we eat something, we incorporate the matter without preserving the form. When we sense something, we incorporate the form without preserving the matter. Otherwise, when we stop to smell the roses, tiny little roses would grow in our brains and the thorns would give us headaches.
—Michael Flynn
Read all about the Animal Soul on Mr. Flynn’s blog:
Not addressing the main point, but A plant has memory– http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-mimosa-plants-memory-01695.html
Then, he was talking about plants, earlier:
http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/10/in-psearch-of-psyche-day-of-triffids.html