Plant Consciousness is real and comes before intelligence

I think its very arrogant to think of ourselves (humans) as the only being with consciousness. and I think this comes from a Judaeo-Christian mindset. Because in this system of thought, god created people in their own image and people are the rulers of everything else "beneath them". This seems to be the dominant thinking of our time and it bothers me that its the case.

Whiel readign this book The Light Eaters HIghlights i ws amazed at the way plants behave that is so very social, and self determined. they really do have a form of intelligence all their own and I look forward to more discoveries about it. I came into reading this already thinking that plants are conscious, because I believe that consciousness exists on a sliding scale, with different levels of awareness. But i do think that consciousness comes included in life as a first step. So rocks and minerals aren't conscious, neither are stars or other astrological bodies.

But i do think there might be something to the idea that space itself could have consciousness, kind of like the whole of the universe in its complexity has an emergent consciousness.. But anyways I'm talking about plants.