New episode - let me know what you think! https://youtu.be/OybxPFN8Ifc
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"Incorrect beliefs impact the lives of others" - Street Epistemologist Mark Solomon - Ep:109
Dr. Mark Solomon is an author, neuropsychologist, musician and radio show/podcast host whose work touches on a wide range of topics. Mark produces a national...
Interesting article on AI sentience by Rob Long from the Future of Humanity Institute and the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness. As ever, I'm hoping this sort of thinking forces people to get more serious about the implications of non-human animal sentience too...
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cwDbYmnSdoobdcJnx/key-questions-about-artificial-sentience-an-opinionated
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cwDbYmnSdoobdcJnx/key-questions-about-artificial-sentience-an-opinionated
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Key questions about artificial sentience: an opinionated guide - LessWrong
What is it like to be DALL-E 2? Are today’s AI systems consciously experiencing anything as they generate pictures of teddy bears on the moon, explain jokes, and suggest terrifying new nerve agents? …
Which Animals Matter? by Henry Shevlin: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48628591
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Which Animals Matter? Comparing Approaches to Psychological Moral Status in Nonhuman Systems on JSTOR
Henry Shevlin, Which Animals Matter? Comparing Approaches to Psychological Moral Status in Nonhuman Systems, Philosophical Topics, Vol. 48, No. 1 (SPRING 2020), pp. 177-200
Interesting thesis by Ludwig Raal taking a Sentientist approach re: wild animal suffering: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/124595
"The basis of all value is sentience" Legendary philosopher Steve Sapontzis joins me for episode 111 of the #Sentientism podcast and YouTube. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. https://youtu.be/zzp0eErAk-c
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"The basis of all value is sentience" - Steve Sapontzis Take #2 - Ep:111
Steve (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/steve-sapontzis, http://www.stevesapontzis.com/) is professor emeritus of philosophy at California State University, East Bay. He specialises in animal ethics, environmental ethics & meta-ethics. He was co…
Here's my Mark Solms interview - author of "Hidden Spring" on the hard problem of consciousness (and sentience): https://youtu.be/lcrxdHOVLQQ
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"Ought flows from sentience" - neuropsychologist & "Hidden Spring" author Mark Solms - Ep:112
Mark is a psychoanalyst & neuropsychologist, best known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming & his use of psychoanalytic methods in contemporary neuroscience. He holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote…
Interesting conversation with two "Celebrity Suspected Sentientists" (in fact one is a confirmed Sentientist on our "wall") https://youtu.be/fGH0cyg_tjc
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Peter Singer and Yuval Noah Harari on the Power of Responsibility
What have you done for planet earth today? Watch Yuval Noah Harari and Peter Singer – professor of bioethics, philosopher and author of 'Animal Liberation' – discuss human responsibility towards animals, growing poverty within a neoliberal order, and the…
Free webinar tomorrow about new SEI report & initiative to try and push non-human animal perspectives into international governance and sustainability thinking... links to our idea of "Sentientist Development Goals"! https://www.sei.org/events/animal-welfare-sustainable-development-policy/
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Animal welfare and sustainable development: key linkages, collective responsibilities and policy opportunities
Tune in to this webinar on 25 May for a discussion on the interdependence of animal welfare, public health and environmental conversation.
That was interesting - some real prospects of getting non-human animal represented in international sustainability governance...
Interesting paper by fellow Sentientist (and previous podcast guest) Walter Veit on the origins of sentience and consciousness
A recording of the recent SEI event re: pushing non-human animal welfare into the international sustainability agenda: https://youtu.be/z3o8yOk3h7E
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Animal welfare and sustainable development webinar: Stockholm+50-affiliated event
Stockholm Environment Institute and New York University Animal Studies present "Animal welfare and sustainable development: key linkages, collective responsibilities and policy opportunities."
This Stockholm+50-affiliated webinar aired 25 May 2022. Experts…
This Stockholm+50-affiliated webinar aired 25 May 2022. Experts…
A Sentientist revolution in economics? Sentientist Economics? https://youtu.be/ZWLWSnIoOWQ)
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Sentientist Economics - Nicolas Treich - Sentientism Ep: 115
Nicolas (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/nicolas-treich) is a research associate at INRAE & the Toulouse School of Economics. His work focuses on risk & decision theory, env. economics, benefit-cost analysis &, more recently, on animal welfare.…
Hope you enjoy - new episode! "As people who are harmed - how can we perpetrate harm?" - LoriKim Alexander - Sentientism Ep: 116 https://youtu.be/xub0OeWtqAw
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"As people who are harmed - how can we perpetrate harm?" - LoriKim Alexander - Sentientism Ep: 116
LoriKim (she/her/we/our) describes herself as an educator, organiser, activist, conservationist, abolitionist, naturalist & healer. Originally from Jamaica & now living in the Bronx, USA, LoriKim has dedicated her life to working for social & environmental…
Interesting announcement from one of our previous guests & Sentientsm FB group member - linking non-human animal and AI ethics... https://twitter.com/sentientism/status/1536334154358566912?s=20&t=1vhIrDZ0bngbiTXla_SuWQ
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Many advocates for non-human animals are rightly frustrated at the public & academic fascination with "maybe-sentient" AI. But this work can also help us renew focus on the implications of "obviously-sentient" non-human animals on farms & in the wild 🌱 Congrats…
Two very different Sentientism-relevant listens involving two Sentientism FB group members and podcast hosts who have had me on as a guest, one previous Sentientism guest and one future guest...
Jacy Reese Anthis on Aaron Rabinowitz's Embrace The Void (heavyish Philosophy of Mind warning :slight_smile: !) https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2022/6/9/ev-244-semantics-of-consciousness-with-jacy-reese-anthis
Peter Singer on Josh Szeps Uncomfortable Conversations: https://shows.acast.com/uncomfortable-conversations-with-josh-szeps/episodes/peter-singer-live-the-worlds-greatest-moral-philosopher
Jacy Reese Anthis on Aaron Rabinowitz's Embrace The Void (heavyish Philosophy of Mind warning :slight_smile: !) https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2022/6/9/ev-244-semantics-of-consciousness-with-jacy-reese-anthis
Peter Singer on Josh Szeps Uncomfortable Conversations: https://shows.acast.com/uncomfortable-conversations-with-josh-szeps/episodes/peter-singer-live-the-worlds-greatest-moral-philosopher
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EV - 244 Semantics of Consciousness with Jacy Reese Anthis — Embrace The Void
My guest this week is Jacy Reese Anthis (@Jacyanthis), a PhD student in machine learning at the University of Chicago, and the co-founder of the Sentience Institute. We discuss his recent paper arguing for a semantic solution to the hard problem of consciousness.…