Of course an HNers gonna ask something like this. Plants have no mechanisms to experience time at a metabolism even near the slowest of animals (ie tortoise, elephant.) Nothing close to a nervous system. When you find out the first pain-bearing plant, don't comment here, go get your Nobel Prize. Don't waste your breath on a specious argument.

I can only trust you'll be so considerate to a nest of termites that infests your house.

Only if they take their shoes off at the door.

What about my computer then, it has a mechanism to 'experience' time, on a level far better than any living being. (The real time clock.) It can process information, which seems quite similar to a nervous system. And it can cry for help via log-files. Seems by your definition I need a really good justification for a reboot.

You're just pulling a pundit...

But to entertain your coy argument. Metaphors are not biology. A computer has nothing close to a nervous system. And has no self modifying parts.