Great to be #1 here (although they say it's not ordered :)...) https://veganfta.com/2022/07/30/10-vegan-podcasts-you-have-to-listen-to-in-2022/

Good intro from our next guest (upcoming episode): "I write books about giant spiders 🕷 from outer space."

Hi all - new episode just out with the sci-fi/fantasy legend Adrian Tchaikovsky. So frustrating when such a great mind still ends up with "but bacon" - hopefully our conversation might nudge him to put his "do no harm" philosophy into practice... https://youtu.be/1X8UarLxoOk

Some clips as a taster!

One previous Sentientism guest (ep 116) interviews another (ep 22)! https://sentientmedia.org/sentient-media-podcast-jasmin-singer/

Interesting piece that addresses some of the themes re: religion, caste, social justice and sentientist ethics that Chaitanya and I discussed: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/being-vegan-and-anti-caste-why-we-need-hear-marginalised-communities-168030

Hi all. Interesting AMA here with Sentientist Josh Milburn: https://youtu.be/O37X-OJAEM0

New episode - hope you enjoy - let me know what you think! https://youtu.be/SZnc4rUsxJU

Jeff Sebo | Artificial Sentience and the Ethics of Connected Minds https://youtu.be/9XDYu37S2ew

This was fun: https://youtu.be/-aimJox5oPI

Interesting discussion - referencing a Sentientist perspective! https://newbooksnetwork.com/wilderness-morality-and-value

Protecting Animals 51 - Sentientism on the Knowing Animals podcast https://pod.link/997543452/episode/45645370c00a21b9c0b8b1d7306177bf

Interesting piece by a previous Sentientism guest and a potential future one! https://areomagazine.com/2022/09/27/hindu-vegetarianism-religion-and-animal-rights-in-india/

Bringing animals into AI ethics. Fascinating summary https://faunalytics.org/bringing-animals-into-ai-ethics/ and full open access paper by Yip Fai Tse and Peter Singer https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-022-00187-z

"People who showed more moral consideration of nonhuman animals... tended to show more moral consideration of sentient AIs."
"A variety of... characteristics... predicted moral consideration of AIs, especially a vegan :seedling: diet..."
https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/aims-survey-2021

DxE's Matt Johnson joins me for our latest Sentientism episode: https://youtu.be/niiBZVatbcY

This could be a major milestone - following on from the Cambridge Declaration... Surely the world will listen to 470 philosophers...? https://greea.ca/en/montreal-declaration-on-animal-exploitation/ Please do what you can to share this around on #WorldAnimalDay. I've tweeted of course if you want to retweet or share those.

Should we genetically engineer animals so they suffer less? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8dD9vCcp0ko

"Sentientism, Motivation and Philosophical Vulcans"
Fascinating paper by previous Sentientism podcast guest and FaceBook group member Luke Roelofs exploring three varieties of Sentientist moral status/scope...
- Broad: Even zero-valenced sentience (should such a thing be possible e.g. Philosophical Vulcans or photons under #panpsychism) matters
- Narrow: Only hedonically valenced sentience (e.g. suffering/pleasure) matters
- Motivational: Any sentience matters that motivates the experiencing subject to act, even if it doesn't involve suffering/pleasure.
Luke prefers the motivational version, which collapses to the narrow version if philosophcal vulcans can't exist.
It's a bit hard to imagine what it might be like to be one of these philosophical vulcans. They might express a preference for you not to torture them - but they wouldn't feel any valenced difference whether you did or not!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papq.12420
(full paper is available on ResearchGate if you have a free account there: https://www.researchgate.net/.../361954014_Sentientism...).