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Magnus Vinding | Compassionate Purpose, Reasoned Politics, Suffering-Focused Ethics | Sentientism 252

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Denise Baden | Is Sustainable Ethical Business Just Bullshit? | Sentientism 251

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How to Change Humanity | Björn Ólafsson | Sentientism 250

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Religion, Morality and Philosophy in Scotland | What Even Is RMPS Sentientism Episode Cross-post | Sentientism 249

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Pretty Lies that hide the truth and drive discrimination | Natalie Khazaal | Sentientism 248

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Brain Shaman | Sentientism episode x-post | 247

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Citizens' Assemblies, But With Animals & Plants | Multispecies Politics & Art | Eva Meijer | Sentientism 246

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In Tune to Nature with Carrie Freeman - Sentientism episode X-post - 245

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Have We Fallen for the Greatest Deception? - Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu's hard-hitting truth - Sentientism 244

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Spirituality, Veganism & Sentientism: Mari Andrew on Animals, Meaning, and Moral Hierarchy - Sentientism 243

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"The Mountain In The Sea" author Ray Nayler - Hugo & Locus award-winner - Sentientism 242

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Should Constitutions Protect All Sentient Beings? - John Adenitire & Raffael Fasel - Sentientism 241

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Censored Landscapes - Isabella La Rocca Gonzalez - Sentientism 240

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Religious people and atheists should team up to help animals - David Clough - Sentientism 239

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MurderBot, Non-violent Protest & Microbial Minds - Sci-fi author Joan Slonczewski - Sentientism 238

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Teaching Compassion - Heather Marshall & Michelle St John of VinE - Sentientism 237

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Giving $500 to 1000 people to do something Drop Dead Generous - Tom Cledwyn - Sentientism 236

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We're Reaching a Critical Mass - Consumer Behaviour Expert Jack Waverley - Sentientism 235

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Is Your Suffering An Illusion? - ‪Keith Frankish‬ - Sentientism 234

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Positive Power Through Connection - Steven Rouk - Sentientism 233

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What Animal Festivals Tell Us About Being Human - "Forget The Camel" author Elizabeth MeLampy - Sentientism 232

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"You can be a victim of oppression and also oppress others" - Seb Alex - Sentientism 231

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In the classroom! - Sentientism 230

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How wide should "The Moral Circle" go? - Jeff Sebo - Sentientism 229

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"Sentience is the bedrock of ethics" - Jonathan Balcombe - Sentientism 228

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Should we be more dog? - Philosopher Mark Rowlands - Sentientism 227

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"The story of our species needs to be re-written in the AI age" - Ronen Bar - The Moral Alignment Center - Sentientism 226

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"The United Nations has two core defects" - peace entrepreneur Anders Reagan - Sentientism 225

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"A Climate of Truth" - Mike Berners-Lee - Sentientism 224

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Hugo Award winning Sci-Fi author Peter Watts - "We are entropic eddies complex enough to have woken up" - Sentientism 56 - REMASTERED

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What Are Zoos For? - Heather Browning and Walter Veit‬ - Sentientism 223

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Baroness Natalie Bennett "You'll have less stuff in your life but you'll have far more life!" - Sentientism 222

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"We don't have to wait until the 24th century for a Star Trek future" - Christopher Sebastian - Sentientism 55 - REMASTERED

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A Joyful Journey Towards an Edenic Vision - Matthew Halteman ‪of Calvin University‬ - Sentientism 221

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"There is no 'us and them' " - Yasmine Mohammed - Ex-muslim activist - Sentientism 51 - REMASTERED

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The Wood-wide Web and Do Plants Feel Pain? - forest ecologist Justine Karst - Sentientism 220

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“How do you find meaning in a universe that’s doomed?” - Astrophysicst Dr. Katie Mack @AstroKatie - Sentientism 144 - REMASTERED

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"A dual indoctrination of farm culture... and religion" - Jim Mason - Sentientism 219

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Peter Singer - Consider The Turkey Then Pardon Them All - Sentientism 218

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"Collective liberation for all!" - Noella Williams - Writer - Sentientism 217

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"Factory farming... is impermissible in Islam" - Altamush Saeed - Sentientism 216

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"A whole new relationship with non human animals that will blow people’s minds!" - Jonina Turzi - Sentientism 28 - REMASTERED

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"That system will be history... Our job is just to speed that up" - Thom Norman of ‪FarmKind‬.giving - Sentientism 215

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"This great unresolved tension of modern life" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik - Sentientism 214

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"Spirituality is a great way in which capitalism commodifies people's belief" - Richard Twine of Edge Hill University - Sentientism 213

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"You don't really have to convince people to be compassionate" - Jesse Tandler MD of New Roots Institute - Sentientism 212

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"Being more rather than having more" - Ecolinguist Arran Stibbe ‪- Sentientism 211

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Talking to the most important people in the world (maybe) about Sentientism - The RE Podcast - Sentientism 210

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"Not personhood... beingness" - Professor Maneesha Deckha‪‬ - Sentientism 209

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"Good ethics does start with what's real... with what's true" - Philosopher Joel MacClellan - Sentientism 208

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"To see a socialist radical turn into a conservative reactionary just mention animal rights" - Mark Humanity author of "The Humanity Trigger" - Sentientism 207

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"The Farm Bill is corrupted, spoiled, rotten" - Robert Grillo of ‪Free from Harm - Sentientism 206

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"I plant seeds for children... to think for themselves" Louisa Jane Smith of The RE Podcast - Sentientism 205

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"Marx for Cats" - Leigh Claire La Berge - Sentientism 204

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Teaching the Sentientism Worldview - webinar recording - Sentientism 203

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"What if you're the people you've been waiting for?" - John Barry ‪of Queens University Belfast‬ - Sentientism 202

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"The Solutionary Way... we can't wait!" - Zoe Weil - Institute for Humane Education - Sentientism 201

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Cheese Challenge & Pescetarian Paradox - Maja Cullen, Devon Docherty, Carol Jasper - Sentientism 200

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"Reductionism is well-named. It reduces what you can do." - Michael Levin - Sentientism 199

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"We need to imagine a different world" - Emilia Leese - author and host of Think Like a Vegan - Sentientism 198

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Hip Hop is Going Green - Keith Tucker of Hip Hop is Green - Sentientism 197

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Nigerian Food Revolution - Hakeem Jimo of Veggie Victory and ProVeg Nigeria - Sentientism 196

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Consciousness Live! - with skateboarding philosopher Richard Brown - Sentientism 195

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A Truly Humane Education - Laura Chepner - The Vegan Society's Education Officer - Sentientism 194

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Imagining Ethical Schools - Sentientism 193

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Is Veganic the Future of Farming? "We grow plants using plants" - Jimmy Videle - Sentientism 192

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Half-Earth Socialism - Troy Vettese - Sentientism 191

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"Your Neighbour Kills Puppies" - Tom Harris - Activist, Artist & Author - Sentientism 190

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"A new world of animal justice" - Sabine Brels of World Animal Justice - Sentientism 189

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Talking to Humanists about Sentientism - Cross-post bonus from Podcast for Inquiry - Sentientism 188

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"What if we saw ourselves as species diplomats?" - David Peña-Guzmán of Overthink and SFSU - Sentientism 187

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Could animal farming be good for the animals? The Logic of the Larder - with Nick Pendergrast - Cross-post bonus episode from 3CR's Freedom of Species radio show and podcast - Sentientism 186

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"If you combine rationality and compassion you have the essence" - Jonathan Leighton of OPIS - Sentientism 185

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Is veganism a moral obligation? Ghostless Machine cross-post bonus - Sentientism 184

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Don't underestimate your influence! - Chris Bryant of Bryant Research - Sentientism 183

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160: "Mother Cow, Mother India" - Yamini Narayanan - International Development A/Prof - Sentientism

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Waking Cosmos - a cross-post bonus episode - Sentientism 182

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Christof Koch & IIT - "Consciousness is not a computation... it's a state of being" - Sentientism 181

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S-Risks with Tobias Baumann - "Avoiding the Worst... a moral catastrophe" - Sentientism 180

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Melanie Joy - "How to End Injustice Everywhere" - Sentientism 179

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178: "A commitment to solidarity and a stubborn commitment to hope" - Defending Animals Author - Kendra Coulter - Sentientism

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177: "Vegan Reflections" on animals and systems - with Jordi Casamitjana from Vegan FTA - a cross-post bonus episode

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176: "Your Robot Dog Will Die" Author Arin Greenwood - Sentientism

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175: "Making the kind choice becomes this gift" - Molly Elwood - Elwoods Dog Meat CEO - Sentientism

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174: "Law is a reflection of the people that make it" - Iyan Offor - Sentientism

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173: "Welfare protections have failed animals" - Legal Academic Dr Jane Kotzmann - Sentientism

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172: "The Animal Turn" - talking about Sentientism with Claudia Hirtenfelder - a cross-post bonus episode

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171: "We've made a civilizational error" - Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu - Sentientism

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170: "Think more like six year olds!" - Psychology Researcher Luke McGuire - Sentientism

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169: A Sentientism Salon with the American Ethical Union - with Amy Halpern-Laff and Jamie Woodhouse - hosted by Hugh Taft-Morales - a cross-post bonus episode

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168: "Most people think they're better than average" - Tania Lombrozo - Psychologist - Sentientism

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2: Being a Vegan Atheist activist and actress in Hollywood - "Sentientism feels like home!" - Sentientist Conversations - Carole Davis #1

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167: What kind of relationships do we want with AI and other sentient beings? - Novelist and AI Researcher Jared Moore - Sentientism

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166: "An Aligned AGI would end factory farming" - Kat Woods - EA Charity Co-Founder - Sentientism

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165: "I don't believe that people are born bad" - Alexandra Paul - Actress and Activist - Sentientism

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164: Talking about Sentientism on "Knowing Animals" with philosopher Josh Milburn - a cross-post bonus episode

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163: "It was a huge wake-up call... I felt like I'd been living a lie" - Lawyer Delci Winders - Sentientism

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162: "What I learned from that power was that I didn't want it" - Jo-Anne McArthur - Photojournalist - Sentientism

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161: India has a rich history of pro-animal thought. So why aren't we using that in our advocacy (instead of global north narratives)? - Varda Mehrotra - Sentientism

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159: Should non-sentient agents matter too? - Philosopher Nicolas Delon - Sentientism