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“Compassion meets scientific thinking. I wish more people embraced sentientism. All sentient being deserve our moral consideration equally!”
Thanks to blai S from Austria 🇦🇹 for this kind review of the Sentientism podcast. Why not give our 211 episodes a listen? If you like it - be like blai and rate or review to help more minds find us.

Our FREE "Teaching the Sentientism Worldview" webinar for the Autumn term is on Sep 26th from 17:30-18:30 UK time. Sign up below and share it around. The session is targeted at teachers but anyone is welcome to join. Reply if you have any questions - or if you'd like to share your experiences of teaching Sentientism in the classroom! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/952586280207

We now have a #SentientistEducation playlist on YouTube...
What other playlists should we create to help people navigate through our 212 inspiring episodes?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcXzG-dxoZHCWbJbTmx9G9zDML7QFQvd-

“You don’t really have to convince people to be compassionate”
Jesse Tandler 🤩, MD of New Roots Institute joins me for Ep:212 on the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast. Subscribe there (or see the SentientistEducation playlist above) to find our full conversation - and here's a TikTok clip! https://www.tiktok.com/@sentientism/video/7412698269375057184

In fact here it is directly!

"There’s enough spirituality just in appreciating a walk in a forest..."
Author of "The Climate Crisis & Other Animals", sociologist Richard Twine, joins me for #Sentientism ep:213 on YT & Podcast. Find our full conversation there via link below and here's a clip!
https://sentientism.info/spirituality-is-a-great-way-in-which-capitalism-commodifies-peoples-belief-richard-twine-sentientism-ep213

"This great unresolved tension of modern life" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik, authors of "Our Kindred Creatures" join me for ep: 214 of the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast. Find our conversation there & here's a clip.

How we’re trying to nudge humanity towards the #Sentientism worldview’s “evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings”:

teaching in schools (& teaching teachers)
online communities
academic outreach
podcast
YouTube
writing
social media

Come help! 🥰

Do you care about wild and free-ranging animals? Here's a new playlist of our #Sentientism conversations with a focus on wild animal ethics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcXzG-dxoZHCRV8QtWV-a8JQIrv9e8po1

"That system will be history... Our job is just to speed that up" - Thom Norman of FarmKind joins me for episode 215 of the Sentientism podcast and YouTube - find our full conversation there and don't forget to subscribe!

If "70% of people live in countries where expressing humanist values is severely repressed"... then what % of people live in countries where expressing Sentientist values ("evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings") is severely repressed? https://fot.humanists.international/

Could a secular version of reincarnation encourage us to be more compassionate? https://freethinker.co.uk/2024/09/reincarnation-secular-style/ by Nathan Alexander in The Freethinker

Edging towards #SentientistEconomics?
The Animal Welfare Economics Working Group: https://www.aw-econ.org/home

Thoughts? https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jonathan-birch-on-animal-sentience/id1406534739?i=1000673018225

Listen and learn about the wonderful work of VINE (Veganism in Education) - integrating veganism into UK education. Great to have both Michelle and Louisa (the host) in our FB group! https://www.therepodcast.co.uk/post/s12-e9-the-one-about-veganism

If rights are just “declared” based on group membership then they lack a moral foundation.

If they’re grounded in #sentience (the capacity for experiencing, for valuing, for having a perspective & interests) their foundation is strong.

And they go way beyond humanity.

“Factory farming… is impermissible in Islam” - Altamush Saeed joins me for episode 216 of the Sentientism podcast and YouTube. https://youtu.be/fGQhXvN7W5c

And here's a clip!

Eleos AI | A nonprofit organization dedicated to investigating Artificial Intelligence sentience and understanding and addressing the potential wellbeing and moral patienthood of AI systems. https://eleosai.org/

If you need a bit of a break from politics - come and focus with us on what should underpin it… facts and values… good epistemology and inclusive ethics… evidence, reason and compassion… an aspiration to make a better world...
https://www.youtube.com/@Sentientism/