Player FM - Internet Radio Done Right
16 subscribers
Checked 6d ago
Vor vier Jahren hinzugefügt
Inhalt bereitgestellt von Jamie Woodhouse. Alle Podcast-Inhalte, einschließlich Episoden, Grafiken und Podcast-Beschreibungen, werden direkt von Jamie Woodhouse oder seinem Podcast-Plattformpartner hochgeladen und bereitgestellt. Wenn Sie glauben, dass jemand Ihr urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk ohne Ihre Erlaubnis nutzt, können Sie dem hier beschriebenen Verfahren folgen https://de.player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast-App
Gehen Sie mit der App Player FM offline!
Gehen Sie mit der App Player FM offline!
Sentientism
Alle als (un)gespielt markieren ...
Manage series 2882727
Inhalt bereitgestellt von Jamie Woodhouse. Alle Podcast-Inhalte, einschließlich Episoden, Grafiken und Podcast-Beschreibungen, werden direkt von Jamie Woodhouse oder seinem Podcast-Plattformpartner hochgeladen und bereitgestellt. Wenn Sie glauben, dass jemand Ihr urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk ohne Ihre Erlaubnis nutzt, können Sie dem hier beschriebenen Verfahren folgen https://de.player.fm/legal.
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 "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." It's a simple, yet radical, philosophy that's grounded in reality (naturalistic epistemology) and has compassion for all sentient beings (mostly human and non-human animals). Naturalism & sentiocentrism combined. Find out more at https://sentientism.info/ or join a group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism. Also on YouTube!
…
continue reading
226 Episoden
Alle als (un)gespielt markieren ...
Manage series 2882727
Inhalt bereitgestellt von Jamie Woodhouse. Alle Podcast-Inhalte, einschließlich Episoden, Grafiken und Podcast-Beschreibungen, werden direkt von Jamie Woodhouse oder seinem Podcast-Plattformpartner hochgeladen und bereitgestellt. Wenn Sie glauben, dass jemand Ihr urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk ohne Ihre Erlaubnis nutzt, können Sie dem hier beschriebenen Verfahren folgen https://de.player.fm/legal.
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 "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." It's a simple, yet radical, philosophy that's grounded in reality (naturalistic epistemology) and has compassion for all sentient beings (mostly human and non-human animals). Naturalism & sentiocentrism combined. Find out more at https://sentientism.info/ or join a group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism. Also on YouTube!
…
continue reading
226 Episoden
Alle Folgen
×S
Sentientism

1 Should we be more dog? - Philosopher Mark Rowlands - Sentientism 227 1:28:46
1:28:46
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:28:46
Mark Rowlands is a writer and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami and the author of several books on the philosophy of mind, the moral status of non-human animals, and cultural criticism. His books include Animal Rights , The Body in Mind , The Nature of Consciousness , Animals Like Us, The Happiness of Dogs and a personal memoir, The Philosopher and the Wolf . His latest book is The Word of Dog . In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:01 Welcome - Previous episode links: Frans de Waal , Marc Bekoff , Jessica Pierce , Michael Hauskeller 03:20 Mark's Intro - 20-something books... the mind, moral consideration,animals, environment, the meaning of life... - "The Word of Dog... an exploration of the idea of meaning in life through the ideas provided by a series of dogs" - Luna enters the chat 05:25 What's Real? - "We weren't a religious family... I never went to church" - Mother's father was an Anglican vicar "that just puther off formal religion" - "The younger me was hostile [towards religious orsupernatural ideas]... I just didn't buy it... I was just a firm, died in the wool naturalist... we're just physical organism - when we die we die" - "I've come to the view that 'real' is ambiguous" - Two different perspectives: from the outside and from theinside - "...from the outside I'm just an unremarkable being in an unremarkable world who leads an unremarkable life" - "From the inside our lives are hubs of meaning and purpose... we matter... what we want matters deeply to us" - Tom Nagels' paper "The Absurd": "We have these two different views of reality - we know they both can't be true because they're incompatible but we can't bring ourselves to get rid of either one of them... Our existence in this sense is absurd... it doesn't make sense." - #wittgenstein : "Our lives have no limit in the sense that our visual field has no limit" - "We find it very difficult to understand the idea of death... but we know that there is an end" - "Which is more real? [the view from the outside or the inside]... to which do we attach the word 'real'?... It's not clear that there's a straightforward answer..." - JW: Is suggesting that the subjective is just another partof objective reality a potential resolution? 27:40 What (and Who) Matters? 45:50 Who Matters? 01:10:10 A Better World and The Meaning of Life? 01:26:20 Follow Mark: - The Word of Dog - Mark on PhilPeople - Mark at the University of Miami - Mark on Wikipedia And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
S
Sentientism

1 "The story of our species needs to be re-written in the AI age" - Ronen Bar - The Moral Alignment Center - Sentientism 226 1:43:20
1:43:20
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:43:20
Ronen Bar is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder and former CEO of Sentient, a meta non-profit for animals focused on community building and developing tools tosupport animal rights advocates. He is currently focused on advancing a new community-building initiative, The Moral Alignment Center, to ensure AI development benefits all sentient beings, including animals, humans, and futuredigital minds. For over a decade, his work has been at the intersection of technological innovation and animal advocacy, particularly in the alternative protein and investigative reporting sectors. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:11 Welcome 02:40 Ronen's Intro - Social entrepreneur "using storytelling to promote reason and compassion for all sentient beings" - Investigative journalism (care homes then slaughterhousesin Israel and abroad) - Leading the Sentient NGO, including using on-animal investigative cameras to "enhance animal storytelling... of particular named animals" not just the story of a slaughterhouse - Alternative protein non-profits - The Moral Alignment Center "making sure that #ai is apositive force for all sentient beings" - "What is good?... I don't think those questions are asked enough in the AI space" - Starting new fields and communities - How the advent of powerful AI forces us to revisit thesefundamental "what's real?", "what matters?" and "whomatters?" questions - The ethical question is neglected in AI, but "it is in the minds of people... Ilya Sutskever... Ray Kurtzweil... Sam Altman..." 07:23 What's Real? - Growing up in Israel "a very religious country" but in a secular family - Wider relatives #orthodox and ultra-orthodox - Asking self "what do I know for sure... 100%...? the obvious answer is subjective experiences at this moment" - Being less sure of everything else but "my subjective experience is certainly true" - #illusionism ? "It's funny to think of it [subjective experience] as an illusion because subjective experience is the only information you will ever receive in your life" - "Science is just the discipline... of trying throughrationality to predict the subjective experiences of humans" (even the results of scientific measurements come through our experiences) - JW: "So if it is an illusion it's still all we've got!" - "Starting from your own subjective experiences... itactually brings you more compassion... " 29:40 What Matters? 36:00 Who Matters? 41:03 A Better World? 01:33:20 Follow Ronen: - Ronen on the EA forum - Ronen on LinkedIn - Moral Alignment Center on LinkedIn - Alien Journalist Dictionary - Email: ronenbar07@gmail.com And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
S
Sentientism

1 "The United Nations has two core defects" - peace entrepreneur Anders Reagan - Sentientism 225 1:35:32
1:35:32
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:35:32
Anders Reagan is a peace entrepreneur, philosopher, academic, and technologist. He is founding director of the Peace and Conflict Science Institute (PACS) , an academic think-tank and advocacy organisation with special consultative status at the United Nations that aims to put peace and rights mechanisms on more rigorous, evidence-based foundations. Anders is also an AI Consultant at the University of Oxford. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:06 Welcome 02:58 Anders' Intro 03:58 What's Real? - "My upbringing and emotional impetus for initiatingthe academic journey that I went on... happened because of a clash between a non-theistic, agnostic background and a religious, Christian environment" - Born in Boulder, Colorado "rather liberal" - Agnostic parents, father interested in Buddhist traditions - Moving to Arkansas at 7 yrs old "quite conservative leaning" - "A sudden transition happened with our social relationships... encountering people who had a Christian religious doctrine at such a core place... in their personality" - "Oftentimes the first question you'll be asked is 'what church do you go to?'... and at the time we didn't have any answer" - "It is an ingratiating tactic... These people are so kind and approchable... they're clearly looking for common ground to build off of" - "But when you respond with 'I'm atheist I don't go toany church at all'... the reaction... would be suspicion, confusion..." - "My mum... took the tactic of saying we would 'homechurch'... either indicating that we have no religion at all or we're way more intense than the rest of you" :) - At 7 years old: "That was intense... I didn't haveany concept of god or theism or religion - I'd never heard of any of these things... it was like living through a culture clash even though I hadn't left my own country" - "We eventually did find a home in a Unitarian Universalist fellowship... very welcoming of what they called liberalreligion... people who had found themselves ostracised by other congregations... LGBTQ+... Muslims... the Wicca faith... they would congregate in this space... exchange ideas... trying to find common ground across all of these different religious doctrines... I found that to be very enriching" - "Sunday School programme which offered a survey ofreligions. By the time I finished that programme... I felt like I had a pretty thorough understanding of the full range of religious and spiritual traditions" 21:54 What Matters? 42:14 Who Matters? 01:09:40 A Better World? 01:32:30 Follow Anders - Andersreagan.com - PACSInstitute.org - Anders' LinkTree - Anders on LinkedIn - andersjreagan@pm.me And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
S
Sentientism

1 "A Climate of Truth" - Mike Berners-Lee - Sentientism 224 1:28:14
1:28:14
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:28:14
Mike Berners-Lee is Professor in Practice at Lancaster University and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting . His books include How Bad are Bananas? , The Burning Question and There Is No Planet B and he is a contributing author to The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg . His latest book is A Climate of Truth . In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:02 Welcome 03:03 Mike's Intro - "A professor of what... I'm not really quite sure... a professor of the future?" - Academic: Climate change, carbon flows, sustainable food systems, AI, technology - Small World Consulting "help organisations to respond to the environmental and wilder polycrisis that we are accelerating towards" - "Trying to create a better world for humans and other beings to live in" - From climate change to "the climate emergency... crisis... breakdown" - From trying to deal with climate change in isolation to..."all these things are just so joined up... climate... nature... food... population... social questions... politics... economics..." - "You can't deal with that separate from questions about what matters, who matters, does truth matter... you have to go deeper and deeper..." - Philosophy "I'm very pragmatic about it." - "It's important to work at all of these levels at once" - "I lose patience [with fellow academics] when they lose contact with everyday reality" - "How much of how we basically think and how we basically run society is fit for purpose... and how much we need to go back to the drawing board?" - The Anthropocene "the era in which suddenly it's humans that are so powerful" - "How we do economics... politics... how we think... it all dates back to a time when we could just expand our activities... the world was a robust playground... we could get away with anything we liked... Now we're right up against the stops... a hard physical boundary" - "We've given ourselves enormous physical power and wejust haven't given ourselves, yet, the wisdom with which to wield that power" - "We're like babies running around with machine guns" 09:52 What's Real? - Mathematician parents "they also went to church" - "They asked a lot of questions [about religion]... they were not literalists" ... 21:53 What Matters? 34:00 Who Matters? 51:05 A Better World? 01:24:30 Follow Mike: - " A Climate of Truth " A very simple guide to what’s going on in the world…" - Mike on BlueSky @mikebernerslee “I’m on BlueSky and I’m not on X… Please do avoid any social media in which you do not trust the owner… please switch right now”. - Mike on Sentientism.info And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
S
Sentientism

1 Hugo Award winning Sci-Fi author Peter Watts - "We are entropic eddies complex enough to have woken up" - Sentientism 56 - REMASTERED 1:15:52
1:15:52
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:15:52
S
Sentientism

1 What Are Zoos For? - Heather Browning and Walter Veit - Sentientism 223 1:15:14
1:15:14
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:15:14
Heather Browning is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Her primary research interests are animal welfare, ethics, and consciousness. Walter Veit is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading and an external member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the Ludwig MaximilianUniversity of Munich. Much of Walter’s recent writing has been on animal minds, welfare and ethics, as well as evolution. As we've already covered our standard Sentientism "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?" questions in our previous conversations in episodes 48, 54 and 158, here we focus on Heather and Walter's new book " What Are Zoos For? " In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . Find our previous conversations with Walter and Heather here , here and here . 00:00 Clips 01:12 Welcome - Heather's episode 54, Walter's episodes 48 & 158 02:15 Intros (see bios above) - Heather "How do we study what's happening inside theminds of animals... what the world is like for them... the ethical implications" - Walter "I study the diversity of minds... in animals... neurodiversity... in humans... in AI systems" - "Our zoo book... how should zoos run... take a non-anthropocentric perspective" 03:40 What Are Zoos For ? And Who Are They For? - The range of human views about zoos: entertainment /conservation / fascination vs. exploitation - Heather's background as a zookeeper and a zoo animalwelfare officer - Combining an understanding of zoos from the inside plusphilosophy - Instead of the zoo industry vs. total animal liberation"a more balanced perspective... from the point of view of the animals and not just human ethics" 06:44 Pillars of Human Zoo Justification - Entertainment, conservation, education and research - "There's definitely been a shift over time" - "In the beginning they were very much places of entertainment. The original proto-zoos were owned by rich and powerful people... to demonstrate their power" - "This history... entertainment... domination of animals... leads people to be very concerned about what zoos do" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik episode 08:35 Types of Zoo Today - "There's a great diversity of zoos... we're not just defending all zoos as they currently exist" - Best practices, improving welfare standards "they should increase" 16:15 Challenges to the idea of “good zoos” 25:52 Zoos, the wild, agriculture, companions, sanctuaries 35:50 Parallels with human situations? 44:25 The life histories of zoo animals 59:55 Should human animals just leave other animals alone? 01:10:12 What can we do? 01:11:44 Follow - What Are Zoos For? - Heather Browning - Walter Veit And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
S
Sentientism

1 Baroness Natalie Bennett "You'll have less stuff in your life but you'll have far more life!" - Sentientism 222 1:16:56
1:16:56
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:16:56
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 bycreating an elected upper legislative chamber. Her journalism in Australia, Thailand and the UK has been published in the Bangkok Post, The Guardian, TheIndependent, The Times and many other newspapers. Her latest book is " Change Everything: How We Can Rethink, Repair and Rebuild Society ". In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:09 Welcome 03:03 Natalie's Intro - "Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle for really formal occasions - this is not a formal occasion" - Leading @GreenPartyofEnglandWales & the "Green Surge" - "If we had a democratic electoral system... a fair electoral system... we would have got 40 MPs... democracy would be a good idea" - Journalism @guardiannews @BangkokPostOfficial - "My first politics is #feminism ... I became a feminist at age 5 because I was told 'because you're a girl you're not allowed to have a bicycle'" - "...consistently being told not only could I not do something because I was a girl... I shouldn't even want to do it because I was a girl." - "I swerved close to a PhD several times and then runscreaming in the other direction"... a broad academic background... agricultural science then Asian studies degrees then a masters in mass communications (Donna Haraway, AI - "What we have now, so called generative AI, is notintelligence it is actually big data... we almost had intelligence 20 years ago and we're still at the point of almost having intelligence... I'm very much an AI sceptic" - The environmental impact of AI - Politicians lacking scientific background is "a huge problem" 06:59 What's Real? - "I'm very fundamentally... essentially a materialist... but what life generates is very complex" - Attending a church school & then Sunday School"the polite thing to do... the same grandmother... who didn't think I should ride a bicycle because it wasn't ladylike" - Sunday School at 8-9 yrs: "It was really boring... Isaid to my parents I didn't want to go any more and so that was the end of that" 20:10 What Matters 31:05 Who Matters 54:13 A Better World? 01:12:58 FollowNatalie: - NatalieBennett.org - @NatalieGreenPeer “I’m absolutely hyperactive on socialmedia“ - Natalie’s Change Everything Substack – including a recent article on how the UK government are teaming up with Saudia Arabia on historical preservation as Saudi are working to erase much of their own history - Natalie on Wikipedia And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
S
Sentientism

1 "We don't have to wait until the 24th century for a Star Trek future" - Christopher Sebastian - Sentientism 55 - REMASTERED 1:08:02
1:08:02
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:08:02
S
Sentientism

1 A Joyful Journey Towards an Edenic Vision - Matthew Halteman of Calvin University - Sentientism 221 1:39:24
1:39:24
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:39:24
Matthew Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University and a fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He wrote Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation and co-edited Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating (with Andrew Chignell and Terence Cuneo ). His latest book, Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan , was published in November 2024. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:12 Welcome - Our Sentientism guest mutuals: Jasmin Singer, Mariann Sullivan, Christof Koch, Elan Abrell, Christopher Sebastian, John Sanbonmatsu... 04:19 Matt's Intro - "A kid from the mid-west - my people are agriculture people" 04:30 What's Real - "A Mennonite boy... anabaptist tradition of the Christian faith" - "A group... who focuses much more on... the ethics than the meta-physics" - "I remember being really surprised... to realise that other kids had different versions of the Christian faith..." - "The tradition I grew up in was really focused on... god is love and Jesus said... love god with all your heart... love your neighbour as yourself" - "The question in my tradition... was 'are you loving people'... unconditional love, unconditional grace... are you being the hands and feet of Jesus Christ on the ground" - "My family... the group of Mennonite scholars that gets tapped to write the book about Mennonites... my dad was the Mennonite economist... my aunt was the Mennonite feminist theologian..." - "My uncle... wrote a systematic theology...the Catholics and the Protestants had been doing this for centuries and the Mennonites were always focused on what happens on the ground... being the hands and feet of Jesus showing unconditional love to a suffering world." - "I've always thought that arguments about what is real tend to distract us from the real question... how do we show love to our neighbour... lifts up the people who are suffering... brings the people on the margins to the centre" - "Culture wars... debates over worldviews... have not shown a very impressive track record of success in this regard" - "We spend so much time fighting over what is real that we miss the fact that in a lived experiential way we have way more in common than we disagree about" - "For finite, error-prone creatures like us the really interesting conversations are on the ground where we're grieving, where we're suffering, where we're celebrating..." And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
S
Sentientism

1 "There is no 'us and them' " - Yasmine Mohammed - Ex-muslim activist - Sentientism 51 - REMASTERED 1:30:12
1:30:12
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:30:12
Yasmine ( https://twitter.com/YasMohammedxx & https://www.yasminemohammed.com/ ) is a rights activist, advocating for the rights of women living within Islamic majority countries. Yasmine founded Free Hearts Free Minds ( https://www.freeheartsfreeminds.com/ ). Her book, Unveiled, recalls her experiences growing up in a fundamentalist Islamic household & her arranged marriage to a member of Al-Qaeda. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . We discuss: - Growing up in a fundamentalist Muslim household in Canada, attending Islamic school, being dressed in hijab & niqab - Being forced into marriage with an Al Qaeda member (now in prison in Egypt), considered "strong enough to control me" - Questioning things from a young age - The isolation of some religious communities even in secular states - Having a daughter & that being a catalyst for change - Escaping from husband & family - Going to university & learning about religions. The intoxication of being allowed to question - "I've been wasting my whole life terrified of a figment of the imagination of some ancient man" - "You spend so much of your life ruled by a fairy tale" - What's real? Believing in Islam - "It's embarrassing to admit I really did believe these things" - "You're indoctrinated from birth... & punished for questioning" - "You believe or you burn in hell" - "Every aspect of your life is laid out... Questioning is challenging god himself. So you must submit" - The life of Mohammed. The Quran as the word of god - "You don't think 'is this a good thing to do?' you think 'is this the correct thing to do?'" - What's real? Leaving Islam - Taking off the hijab & being told "you need to be killed before you leave Islam" by her mother, "I will be punished for eternity for having a daughter who is an infidel" - How a Jehovah's Witness mother might allow their child to die rather than allow a blood transfusion - Abraham's willingness to kill his own son - "Honour killings" (murders) - Religious compliance as above "ordinary morality" - Studying religion, seeing 9/11 happen & being horrified - Seeing a BBC reporter find Bin-Laden documents mentioning Yas' ex-husband's firm - "I needed to get my daughter out of that world before she started to think that was OK" - Hints of fundamentalism in the atheist movement - Appearing in Jay Shapiro's film "Islam & the future of tolerance" w/Sam Harris & Maajid Nawaz - "Meditation saved my life" - Humility & open-mindedness at the heart of naturalism - And more... (see YouTube for full notes) Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at https://sentientism.info/ . Join our "wall" https://sentientism.info/wall/ w/this form: https://sentientism.info/im-a-sentientist . Everyone interested, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. Main one: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism . Thanks Graham https://twitter.com/cgbessellieu .…
S
Sentientism

1 The Wood-wide Web and Do Plants Feel Pain? - forest ecologist Justine Karst - Sentientism 220 1:32:52
1:32:52
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:32:52
Justine Karst is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. As an ecologist she studies the mycorrhizal ecology of forests. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ecology and President of the International Mycorrhiza Society. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:13 Welcome - Justine on the Many Minds podcast - The #woodwideweb 03:45 Justine's Intro - "I'm pretty into mycorrhizas" 04:30 What's Real? - #catholic parents "they both left the church when they got married" - Raised in a non-religious home - Summers with grand-parents who felt "we need to get a healthy dose of religion because we were missing it from all the other months of the year" - "I was and I still am a very curious, curious kid... I was really fascinated by a lot of the [church] stories and the rituals... but there was no time for asking questions." - Bible stories "some of them are extraordinary - they don't always make sense to a kids mind or an adult mind" - Dad "the Spock in the family", mum an artist - Cousins mostly religious. An argument at ~10 yrs old about evolution and whether He Man has more muscles than Justine :) "No - he has the same number of muscles as me - they're just more developed" - Getting in trouble with grandma for telling cousins we evolved "from something ape-like" - "I'm not somebody that ever talks somebody out of their faith... not anti-religion... I deeply respect people's values and beliefs and faith even though it's different... I find it very easy to co-exist with people who do have a faith." - Enjoying good faith conversations with religious people about nature "I really appreciated how he would give me space to ask questions" - "I'm not religious, I don't believe there's a god, but I am totally open to being wrong about that." - "I practice science with a small 's'... I am someone who loves an elegant experiment tied to field observations - that's what I'm here for." - "Some people could say that I'm a reductionist... reduction is kind of a dirty word... but I can kind of live with it." - "There's definitely been some events in my life that do make me pause... is there something else going on here?"... coincidences vs. something else? 52:30 What and Who Matters? 01:19:15 How to Make a Better World? 01:28:40 Follow Justine: - Justine’s Karst Lab - Justine on BlueSky - Justine on Twitter “I kind of abandoned that account… I just got tired of the ads and the crappy algorithm”. JW: “That platform almost now seems to be an attempt to destroy public epistemology and ethics – almost the antithesis of what we’re trying to do with this [Sentientism] worldview.” And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
S
Sentientism

1 “How do you find meaning in a universe that’s doomed?” - Astrophysicst Dr. Katie Mack @AstroKatie - Sentientism 144 - REMASTERED 1:27:25
1:27:25
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:27:25
S
Sentientism

1 "A dual indoctrination of farm culture... and religion" - Jim Mason - Sentientism 219 1:24:38
1:24:38
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:24:38
Jim Mason is a lawyer, journalist and animal rights activist. He was introduced to philosopher Peter Singer , guest on Sentientism episodes 156 and 218, in 1974. Their book Animal Factories was first published in 1980 and revised in 1990. It provides a critical review and photographic documentation of factory farming practices in North America. Jim's book, An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature looks at the historical and cultural roots of the Western belief in God-given dominion over the living world. Jim was elected to the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2001. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 01:15 Welcome 02:47 Jim's Intro - Raised on an animal farm, milking cows, killing chickens - Vegetarian since 1955 and more recently vegan - Born during WWII, growing up in 1940-50s rural America - Religious indoctrination "a family of Bible thumpers... I had to be in church every time the door was open" - Methodist Christianity - "A dual indoctrination of farm culture... and religion... the most intense Christian indoctrination" - "I was brought up on human supremacy and using animals and animal exploitation as a way of life" - Until early 30's "I never really departed from that agrarian mentality" - "I became an atheist at Sunday School" - Mourning the loss of dog Butch "my main companion... a brother to me" - "I asked the preacher... 'Will I see Butch in heaven?'... he finally droned on... 'No we don't see animals in heaven - animals don't have souls'... By the time the service was over I began to consciously think 'I am an atheist - I don't believe this stuff'" - "I have since graduated from atheism to anti-theism... I don't like any form of theism... it's anti-science... we'll find a better kind of based for our spirituality other than superstition." 06:41 What's Real? - "It's human supremacy. We're made in the image of god. And since I've become an atheist I've realised that we've made god in the image of ourselves... We created a god that looked like us to give us power over the world." - Old Testament upbringing... "[not] Christian Nationalist or fundamentalist... good old mainstream Protestants" - Era of segregation and "women's oppression had not occurred to us yet"... Trad Wives "church, children, kitchen" - God, bible, Jesus "we were sinful and we had to come to church to purge ourselves... a whole system to train us to behave..." 26:56 What Matters? 42:20 Who Matters? 01:02:34 A Better World? Follow Jim - JimMason.website - @JimMasonAUO (“reluctantly – I think it’s [Twitter] in it’s death throes”) - Jim on Wikipedia And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics with a background in philosophy. He works mostly in practical ethics and is best known for his books "Animal Liberation Now" and "Why Vegan?" and for his writings about global poverty. You can find our first Sentientist conversation on episode 156 . His new book, Consider the Turkey , is available now from Princeton University Press. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 01:12 Welcome - Sentientism merch :) - Sentientism in the classroom 03:45 Touring China - "If those of us in the animal movement can't have some influence on China... what we're doing in the West is a sideshow" - "China has more farmed animals than any other country in the world and it has really no national animal welfare laws..." - "China's meat consumption has been growing enormously since the country became more prosperous... That's something I felt I wanted to try and have an influence on" - The difficulty of influencing China from an outside perspective - "Try to plant some seeds there... animal ethics... raise some questions about what we're eating..." - "Encourage some of the professors... to teach more courses... practical ethics... animal ethics..." - Boycotting vs. engaging with autocratic states? - "I don't think that [boycotting] is going to lead to any progress... harden attitudes... 'If these westerners don't want to speak to us... we can manage perfectly well on our own'... and they can... It's really important to engage with them." - "It's still possible to make a difference by influencing individuals... a lot has happened because some people have moved away from eating animals... helping to put some pressure on the meat industry and on supermarkets" - "Professors who have quite a lot of autonomy in what they teach... not complete... but... to put on courses in practical ethics and animal ethics" - How are epistemology and ethics different in Chinese culture? - "I don't think anybody made a statement that I would regard as faith-based... referring to god or some divine purpose" although Buddhism / daoism - "Certainly open to the facts... science of animal sentience... nobody questioned that... nobody questioned evolution..." - "Very much like talking to an audience in the west that was university educated where also you don't get very many challenges to a science-based view" - Religion and autocracy/authoritarianism as two different sources of dogmatism? 25:52 Consider the Turkey Follow Peter - PeterSinger.info (and you can chat to PeterSinger.AI there) - Peter’s Bold Reasoning Substack - Peter on BlueSky - Peter's Lives Well Lived podcast with Kasia de Lazari Radek And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
S
Sentientism

1 "Collective liberation for all!" - Noella Williams - Writer - Sentientism 217 1:21:18
1:21:18
Später Spielen
Später Spielen
Listen
Gefällt mir
Geliked1:21:18
Noella Williams is a Brooklyn-based freelance culture writer whose writing has appeared in Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, the Washington Post, Vox and elsewhere. Noella’s reporting ranges from Black culture to queer identity to intersectional veganism, internet culture, and more. She describes herself as a "journalist, vegan foodie, pokemon trainer, dj, and abolitionist." One of her most recent pieces, for Vox, was " I'm a Black vegan. Why don't you see more of us? " In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 00:57 Welcome - Noella’s Vox article - Marina Bolotnikova episode - Sentientism merch & mug :) 03:40 Noella's Intro - Florida to New York - 5 year vegan "a big part of my life... a huge lifestyle change... how veganism has changed me... also been reflected in my writing" - Writing on Black / Queer culture, music, politics, food, home & lifestyle, video games, veganism "whatever interests me" - Birdwatching and catching Pokemon :) 06:10 What's Real? - Growing up in the Florida Bible Belt - Black Baptist Church on Sundays and Wednesdays - Christian school from kindergarten to 8th grade - "Huge involvement in church... school... choir... everything had it's basis in Christianity" - Both parents religious "they're both Caribbeans" - "I am not religious any more" - Agnostic since a year after graduating high school "that also coincided with me going vegan and realising I was queer" - Christianity: "It was what I knew and breathed and slept with... that was everything I knew as a kid" - "I started questioning things more at high school... perhaps middle school" - Being asked to sign a very strict pledge at school: "No secular music... drugs... alcohol... this is kind of wild" - "The misogyny in biblical texts was on my mind a lot... religious figures like a pastor... use the bible as a text to justify... a wife submitting to a husband" - "The homophobia eventually came along... a lot of biblical stuff is very 'man and woman'" - "Things were written by different prophets and... I can't generalise the Bible as a whole but... there's a little bit of irony here... how different these things being said are..." - "Maybe this isn't something I should use to guide my life let alone my moral compass" - "My father has a rule that... as long as I was in his house I have to go to church Wednesdays/Sundays" 24:00 What Matters? 31:40 Who Matters? 50:49 A Better Future? 01:18:05 Follow Noella - NoellaWilliams.com - Noella’s Vox Article - Noella’s Links on Campsite - @yonoella - Noella on Insta And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
Willkommen auf Player FM!
Player FM scannt gerade das Web nach Podcasts mit hoher Qualität, die du genießen kannst. Es ist die beste Podcast-App und funktioniert auf Android, iPhone und im Web. Melde dich an, um Abos geräteübergreifend zu synchronisieren.