Evaluating Animal Consciousness - Science - by Kristin Andrews along with Sentientism FaceBook group members Jonathan Birch and Jeff Sebo. Great to see them forcing this critical issue into top tier journals: https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adp4990
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Evaluating animal consciousness
An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically
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"Change Everything!" - sneak preview of Sentientism episode 222 with Baroness Natalie Bennett. Subscribe now to the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast so you don't miss it!
Deeply weird article... https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/10/animal-activists-are-poor-in-spirit/
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Animal Activists are “Poor in Spirit”
In the first beatitude, Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” The analogous blessing from the Sermon on the
Great to see more atheist / skeptic / freethinking communities engaging seriously in the question of how we treat our fellow sentient beings. Kudos to previous Sentientism guests Objectively Dan (#134) and Thom Norman (#214): https://www.youtube.com/live/X_OMjKZgxD8?si=x08P1Z1-BfaUvI7F
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Truth Wanted 08.06 with ObjectivelyDan and Thom Norman (@Sentientism)
00:00 Intro
30:52 Steve-NE | Is It Okay To Eat Lab Grown Meat?
49:09 Dee-IA | Cruelty Of Animal Treatment
1:13:14 Daniel-(CA) | Exploring Non-Vegan Ways To Help
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In today’s episode of the Truth Wanted, Objectively Dan and Thom Norman with Farm…
30:52 Steve-NE | Is It Okay To Eat Lab Grown Meat?
49:09 Dee-IA | Cruelty Of Animal Treatment
1:13:14 Daniel-(CA) | Exploring Non-Vegan Ways To Help
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In today’s episode of the Truth Wanted, Objectively Dan and Thom Norman with Farm…
“…our whole human understanding – that should be changing on a regular basis and with that we then need to go ‘I need to re-boot my worldview’” - Comedian and Humanists UK Patron Robin Ince
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-1-robin-ince/id1516671905?i=1000476679259
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-1-robin-ince/id1516671905?i=1000476679259
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EP 1 – Robin Ince
Podcast Episode · What I Believe · 03/06/2020 · 28m
Our full conversation is out now - hope you enjoy!: https://youtu.be/dG_YD4Uj9hk
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Baroness Natalie Bennett "You'll have less stuff in your life but you'll have far more life!" - 222
Natalie Bennett is a politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. She was given a peerage (Baroness in the UK House of Lords) in 2019 and is working to abolish her own post by creating an elected…
Sentience evolved because it was adaptive to be able to feel – to experience suffering and flourishing.
But as soon as we (and here I mean all sentient beings) could feel, we started to make decisions that weren’t just about propagating our genes.
We started to make decisions because we cared about ourselves and later, about others.
But as soon as we (and here I mean all sentient beings) could feel, we started to make decisions that weren’t just about propagating our genes.
We started to make decisions because we cared about ourselves and later, about others.
Today the biggest threat to #sentientity is humanity.
Instead, we could choose to be its greatest hope.
Instead, we could choose to be its greatest hope.
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What Are Zoos For? - Clip from Sentientism ep:223 with Heather Browning and Walter Veit on YouTube/Podcast - hope you enjoy the full thing!
And here's the full thing: https://youtu.be/eb74vIv6b9I (also on Sentientism podcast as usual)
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What (and who) Are Zoos For? - Heather Browning and @DrWalterVeit - Sentientism 223
Heather Browning (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/361) is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Her primary research interests are animal welfare, ethics, and consciousness. Heather's latest book is What Are Zoos For? coauthored…
Powerful AIs could adopt:
A) Default human worldviews 😱
B) Alien worldviews completely untethered from our evolved biological context and embodiment 🤯
C) #sentientism’s “evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings“ 🤞 💚
A) Default human worldviews 😱
B) Alien worldviews completely untethered from our evolved biological context and embodiment 🤯
C) #sentientism’s “evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings“ 🤞 💚
New #Sentientism #YouTube playlist! "Psychology, Sociology and Change".
We talk about these themes in almost every Sentientism conversation but these episodes are the most psych/socio/change focused. A treasure trove for you to explore!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcXzG-dxoZHCnyhM9ibhvY4uLgxKj9fso
We talk about these themes in almost every Sentientism conversation but these episodes are the most psych/socio/change focused. A treasure trove for you to explore!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcXzG-dxoZHCnyhM9ibhvY4uLgxKj9fso
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Sentientism - Psychology, Sociology and Change
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Hugo award winning #scifi author Peter Watts on our newly remastered re-release of #Sentientism ep: 56 from 2021.
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sentientism/id1540408008
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kaCPb37JdzppCA8brcWdI?si=uhF6IWjbQgyIxpDyN2lHAg
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sentientism/id1540408008
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kaCPb37JdzppCA8brcWdI?si=uhF6IWjbQgyIxpDyN2lHAg
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Philosophy Podcast · Updated Weekly · We discuss the biggest questions: "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?" with scientists, celebrities, activists, writers and philosophers.
The Sentientism worldview is "evid…
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We desperately need "A Climate of Truth". Mike Berners-Lee joins me for Sentientism episode 224 on YouTube and Podcast. Find our full conversation there - and here's a clip! "A Climate of Truth" is out now from Cambridge University Press.
Compassion alone isn't enough - good epistemology matters too... https://newrepublic.com/article/193307/nature-solutionism-vaccines-beef-climate
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The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers
Few environmental documentaries boast the star power of Common Ground, a forthcoming sequel to Netflix’s award-winning 2020 documentary Kiss the Ground, which presented regenerative agriculture as the “first viable solution to the climate crisis.” Executive…
Working towards More Compassionate Models and even Sentientist AI...? https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4LimpA4pyLemxN4BF/ai-moral-alignment-the-most-important-goal-of-our-generation
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AI Moral Alignment: The Most Important Goal of Our Generation — EA Forum
"Part one of our challenge is to solve the technical alignment problem, and that’s what everybody focuses on, but part two is: to whose values do you…
New Sentientism England local group! Come join us and look out for some in-person meet-ups... https://www.facebook.com/groups/672671795314891/ Thanks Michael for setting this up 🤩
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If we care about a sentient being… we have compassion or moral consideration for them… we want them treated humanely…
What is our minimal moral obligation to them? What most basic rights do they have? What core limits are there on what we should or should not do to them?
What is our minimal moral obligation to them? What most basic rights do they have? What core limits are there on what we should or should not do to them?
If phenomenal consciousness is an illusion does that destroy ethics or extend it? A great article by Keith Frankish linking two deep Sentientism themes... philosophy of mind (what is consciousness?) and the extension of moral scope way beyond humanity. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12152-024-09562-5
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The Ethical Implications of Illusionism
Neuroethics - Illusionism is a revisionary view of consciousness, which denies the existence of the phenomenal properties traditionally thought to render experience conscious. The view has...
Looking forward to speaking about the Sentientism worldview at this conference for maybe the most important people 🤩... the teachers helping young people explore, examine and maybe even choose or change worldviews. https://chesterdbe.co.uk/re-conference-2025 #ReTeach #SentientistEducation
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RE Conference — Chester Diocesan Board of Education